DeSham v. Taugher

Plaintiff’s contention that there should have been given to the jury the question of whether defendant failed in his duty in making his diagnosis when plaintiff came to him in October, 1920, cannot be upheld. The history above recited of this evidently unusual but extremely unfortunate case shows that, while the defendant did not discover the original source of the infection then present, neither could nor did the many other physicians of admitted skill and experience in that vicinity during their observations and treatments of many months. These others had the same opportunities for…