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HERRINGTON v. GAULDEN

No. S13G0577.

751 S.E.2d 813 (2013)

294 Ga. 285

HERRINGTON v. GAULDEN et al.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

November 25, 2013.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Matthew Scott Coles, Coles Barton, LLP, Lawrenceville, James Charles Grant, Alston & Bird, LLP, Kathleen Woodruff Simcoe, Theodore E.G. Pound, Commander Pound Butler, LLP, Atlanta, B. Nicole Smith, Wiley A. Wasden, III, Brennan & Wasden, LLP, Savannah, Paul E. Weathington, Weathington Smith, PC, Louis Boone Park, Matthew L.J.D. Dowell, Alston & Bird, LLP, for appellant.

Andrew Scott Johnson, H. Craig Stafford, Jeffery L. Arnold, Arnold & Stafford, Hinesville, for the appellee.

Joshua Barrett Belinfante, Robbins Ross Alloy Belinfante Littlefield, LLC, Donald J. Palmisano, Jr., Medical Association of Georgia, Eric Jeffrey Frisch, Carlock, Copeland & Stair, LLP, for the amicus appellant.

BLACKWELL, Justice.

Deloris Gaulden experienced cardiac arrest, and she died in the emergency department of Liberty Regional Medical Center. Her daughter sued Bobby L. Herrington, M.D., the medical director of the emergency department, alleging that Gaulden could have been saved, if only her treating physician and nurse had promptly and properly implemented a chest pain protocol that the hospital had adopted.1 The daughter alleged that...

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