Court Opinion

ID: 9755232
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-28 20:31:03.381572+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:28:05.472182
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DAVID GAULTNEY,
Justice, dissenting.
Medical records indicate Dearbonne was treated for pneumonia with an oral antibiotic for twenty days and then admitted to *314the hospital. Her condition deteriorated rapidly in the hospital over four days. Plaintiffs complaint is that her treating doctor did not recognize the deterioration and obtain a consult or provide effective treatment, presumably through appropriate monitoring and a different antibiotic or course of medication. Plaintiffs expert says one failure was in not ordering daily x-rays, because these would have disclosed the deteriorating condition. While the report could be more detailed in outlining the failures and identifying what would have been effective treatment, I see no abuse by the trial court of its discretion.