Stevenson v. Henning

HERRMANN, Justice.

This appeal is taken by the unsuccessful plaintiff in a medical malpractice case.

The errors complained of are threefold:

I

The plaintiff contends that prejudicial error occurred when the defendants’ attorney was permitted to refer to the contents of a medical text book in the direct examination of an expert medical witness testifying on behalf of the defendants. The reference was to the fact that “two schools of thought” existed on the propriety of administering the drug known as regitine pre-operatively to a pheochromocytoma (tumor on the adrenal gland) patient. Objection to…