D'ANGELIS v. Zakuto

*67MONTEMURO, Judge:

This is an appeal from a judgment entered pursuant to a jury determination that appellants’ decedent was not the victim of appellee’s medical malpractice.

On Dec. 5, 1981, appellants brought their twenty-six month old son, Georgie, to appellee for examination. The child had been febrile for several days; he was coughing up mucus, his nose was running, the gland on one side of his neck was swollen, and he was suffering from diarrhea. The diagnosis was purulent rhinitis, and an upper respiratory infection, for which appellant prescribed erythromycin, a broad spectrum antibiotic,…