Serrano

INTRODUCTION

An appellant, including one who is self-represented, bears the burden of providing an appellate record demonstrating error and adequate to allow meaningful review. Plaintiff and appellant Patricia Serrano has failed to meet this fundamental burden. Serrano appealed from a judgment entered after the trial court granted a motion for summary judgment brought by defendant Nazih M. Haddad in Serrano’s medical malpractice action. However, Serrano did not designate as part of the clerk’s transcript any of Haddad’s motion or reply papers including, most importantly, the declaration of Haddad’s expert. Because Serrano has not provided us an appellate record adequate to allow meaningful review, we affirm the judgment.

FACTS AND PROCEDURAL HISTORY

Serrano did not designate her own complaint for inclusion in the clerk’s transcript. For information about her claims and allegations, we rely on her case management statement, which describes the case as a “Medical Negligence” action. In an attachment to the case management statement, Serrano claims Haddad, without Serrano’s knowledge or consent, injected Kenalog steroids into her breast while she was unconscious during surgery.…