Court Opinion

ID: 9640292
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 17:02:31.254084+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:03:27.642530
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Murphy, C. J.,

concurring in part and dissenting in part:

I agree with the majority that legally sufficient evidence was adduced at the trial to establish that Dr. Rosson failed to meet the standard of care for physicians enunciated in Shilkret v. Annapolis Emergency Hosp., 276 Md. 187, 349 A. 2d 245 (1975), and that as a direct consequence Mrs. Fleming sustained injuries which resulted in her death. I cannot agree, however, after careful perusal of the expert testimony of Dr. Hirsh, that there was any evidence of negligence on the part of either Dr. Wilhelm or the Hospital nurses legally sufficient to go to the jury within the standards articulated in Shilkret, that could properly be found to constitute a proximate cause of Mrs. Fleming’s death. I would, therefore, reverse the judgment entered in favor of Dr. Rosson and affirm the judgments in favor of Dr. Wilhelm and the Hospital.