MacKey v. Greenview Hospital, Inc.

PARK, Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment entered on a jury verdict for the defendants in a medical malpractice case. During the course of a breast biopsy, Laura Clark suffered cardiac arrest. Massive and irreversible brain damage ensued from the cardiac arrest. The plaintiffs-appellants are Mrs. Clark’s committee and her husband who has asserted a claim for loss of consortium.1 The biopsy was performed at the defendant-appellee, Greenview Hospital. Mrs. Clark’s surgeon was the defendant-appellee, Dr. Richard F. Grise. Her anesthesiologists were the defendants-appellees, Drs. N. K. Kirby…