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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Annetra POOLE, as administratrix of the estate of Frances Givens Poole, deceased v. Dr. Charles GONZALEZ and The Lloyd Noland Foundation, Inc.
    1981154.
    Supreme Court of Alabama.
    Nov. 3, 2000.
    Thomas H. Keene and L. Peyton Chapman III of Rushton, Stakely, Johnston & Garrett, P.A., Montgomery, for appellee Dr. Charles A. Gonzalez.
    
      Michael K. Wright and Geoffrey S. Bald of Starnes & Atchison, L.L.P., Birmingham, for appellee Lloyd Noland Foundation, Inc., d/b/a Lloyd Noland Hospital and Health Center.
   JOHNSTONE, Justice.

We affirm the summary judgments in favor of the defendants. The record does not contain substantial evidence that the alleged medical negligence was the proximate cause of the death of the patient whose administratrix has filed this action. Smith v. Medical Ctr. East, 585 So.2d 1325 (Ala.1991); Sasser v. Connery, 565 So.2d 50 (Ala.1990); and Peden v. Ashmore, 554 So.2d 1010 (Ala.1989). See also Ex parte Wiginton, 743 So.2d 1071 (Ala.1999); Morrison v. Franklin, 655 So.2d 964 (Ala. 1995); Marvin’s, Inc. v. Robertson, 608 So.2d 391 (Ala.1992); Boykin v. Magnolia Bay, Inc., 570 So.2d 639 (Ala.1990); Smith v. Equifax Servs., Inc., 537 So.2d 463 (Ala. 1988).

AFFIRMED.

HOOPER, C.J., and MADDOX, COOK, and LYONS, JJ., concur.