McWain v. Tucson General Hospital

OPINION

BIRDSALL, Judge.

This appeal is from a summary judgment in favor of the defendants, Tucson General Hospital and Dr. G.D. Griesemer, in a medical malpractice action.

*358The hospital’s motion for summary judgment was based on the appellant-plaintiff’s failure to identify an expert witness. The hospital contended that the appellant’s claim that its nurse-employee negligently gave him an injection causing damage to his sciatic nerve required the testimony of an expert medical witness that what the nurse did fell below the standard of care. The motion directed the court’s attention to…