Hunsucker v. Rowntree

While I agree that a physician’s act in prescribing medicine for a patient may constitute continuing treatment, I do not agree that the patient’s unilateral act in refilling a prescription months after the patient’s last contact with the physician constitutes “continuing treatment by the physician” so as to delay the running of limitations.

In this case, both Mrs. Hunsucker’s and Dr. Rowntree’s summary judgment evidence conclusively establish that Mrs. Hun-sucker’s last contact with the doctor was on May 22, 1987, when he renewed her prescription for Sectral. If that date constituted the last…