Donahoo

This is an action against a physician for alleged negligence in diagnosis and treatment.

About the first of August, 1927, the plaintiff arose one morning with a very severe pain in his hip. Being away from home at the time, a physician who was called gave him a hypodermic injection to relieve the pain until he could return home. He returned home the next day and called another doctor, who treated him until August 14th. During this time he continued to have a sharp pain whenever he stepped on his left foot. On August 15th he went on crutches to defendant’s office for treatment. He told the defendant that he had been taken care of by the other physician, but that “he hasn’t done me no good.” The defendant replied: “Well, if he hasn’t done you any good with medicines, I don’t think I will do you any good with medicines, so we will inject the nerve with alcohol.” The plaintiff testified that upon being asked if this would be painful, the defendant replied that it would not, and also that the defendant said: “You’re liable to walk right out of the office and go to work.” The defendant injected the alcohol into the sciatic nerve. The plaintiff testified that this operation was very…