Opthalmoscope Vs. Supreme Court Case Study

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He did not use an opthalmoscope nor order an x-ray of the eye. This treatment took about twenty to thirty minutes. Later that same evening, the plaintiff’s eye bothered him again and wife tried to contact an eye surgeon was not successful in doing so until 9:00 the next morning, on Sunday. Under the orders of Dr. Carson, the eye was x-rayed whereupon he was hospitalized at about noon on Sunday. He then had surgery to remove the piece on Monday morning with Dr. Carson. Afterwards, he then had no sight in his right eye, except to distinguish between light and dark (Perry & Thompson, 2017, p. 173). The plaintiff sued for malpractice charging that the emergency room physician was negligent because he did not use an opthalmoscope nor did an

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