Kemp v. Heffelman

OPINION

EVANS, Chief Justice.

This is an appeal from a take-nothing summary judgment entered in a medical malpractice suit. We affirm.

The plaintiff, Baudelia R. Kemp, sued the defendant, Dr. Craig Heffelman, alleging that on August 13, 1978, she retained Dr. Heffelman to perform a surgical procedure on her left knee. She alleges that during the course of such treatment, Dr. Heffelman failed to exercise the degree of care “that reasonably prudent medical providers of such category would have exercised under the same or similar circumstances,” particularly by: (1) wrongfully having the plaintiff…