Kieswetter v. Center Pavilion Hospital

OPINION

DUGGAN, Justice.

Appellant, a surgery patient, sued the appellee hospital, alleging medical malpractice resulting in the loss of his eye. He appeals from a directed verdict in favor of the hospital.

Appellant, Robert A. Kieswetter, was admitted to Center Pavilion Hospital in Houston, Texas, in June of 1973 for cataract surgery on one eye. The operation went well without incident. Following the surgery, however, appellant began to experience complications, and his eye swelled up and was all red “like an orange.” His treating physician feared that infection was a cause of the inflammation,…