Under a newspaper’s “lawsuit of the week” feature:
What’s at issue: Whether the dermatology doctor is responsible for injuries allegedly inflicted by a student under his watch. On August 10, 2004, the plaintiff was a patient of Greer’s when Termini””a Louisiana State student who was at UVA on a one-month rotation””pulled a spotlight toward Johnson, “causing it to fall upon the plaintiff’s head, rendering the plaintiff unconscious and damaging her nose,” according to the complaint.
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Just a guess, but I suspect that the student did not match at UVA Derm.
Looks like a question or ordinary neglect rather than malpractice. Would it be malpractice if the ceiling fixture fell in? The roof caved in? If the medical student ran over the patient in the parking lot?
I would think if the roof caved in, it wouldn’t be just the patient suing.
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