Williams v. Bhoopathi

Gloria and Larry Williams appeal from the trial court's granting of the defendant-appellee's motion for directed verdict in a medical malpractice case. We affirm.

This action arose as the result of a stillbirth of one of a set of triplets at the Grove Hill Memorial Hospital on February 15, 1981. The mother, Gloria Williams, had been a patient of Dr. Jack Dozier. Dr. Dozier referred his maternity patients to the appellee, Dr. Bharathi Bhoopathi, for treatment. Dr. Bhoopathi examined Mrs. Williams on three occasions prior to the deliveries. The doctor sent Mrs. Williams to Dr. D.W. Wager in…