Getchell v. Mansfield

In this malpractice case the trial court granted a nonsuit in favor of the defendant physician Mansfield and the jury returned a verdict for the defendant physician Hiestand. The plaintiff appeals.

The plaintiff fell and hurt her shoulder. She went to the defendant Mansfield, a general practitioner in a small Portland suburb. He diagnosed her condition as a shoulder separation and advised that surgical repair would be necessary. He sent plaintiff to the defendant Hiestand, an orthopedist. Hiestand performed the surgery by joining the separated shoulder parts with wires. Later, the wires broke…