Cary v. Arrowsmith

OPINION

LEWIS, Judge.

This is an appeal by plaintiffs James E. Cary and Patricia A. Cary1 from a judgment entered on the jury’s verdict finding for defendants, Peter M. Arrowsmith, M.D. individually and his professional corporation Peter M. Arrowsmith, M.D.,P.C.2 Plaintiffs sought both compensatory and punitive damages for defendant’s alleged malpractice.

The case went to the jury on the plaintiff’s theory (1) that defendant failed to obtain plaintiff’s informed consent to eye surgery and (2) whether it was negligence to prescribe for plaintiff’s post-operative *11use the drug phospholine iodide.…