Buie v. Reynolds

(specially concurring).

I would like to add a couple of observations to those set out in the majority opinion.

First, the admitted fact is that plaintiff hired Dr. C. L. Reynolds to perform the transurethral operation on his prostate. He did not hire a resident trainee, nor authorize or consent to one doing the finically exacting procedure. Admittedly, though, a resident did perform the operation thereby engaging in a type of ghost surgery which is condemned by the law as malpractice and by the American Medical Association as “a fraud and deceit and a violation of a basic ethical concept.”1 A…