Gasiorowski V. Hose

On the morning of April 1, 1988, defendant Aron Hose, M.D., an anesthesiologist on call at Thunderbird Samaritan Hospital, administered an epidural anesthetic to plaintiff Veronica Gasiorowski, a twenty-two year old expectant mother who had entered the hospital to deliver her first child. Plaintiff claims in this medical malpractice lawsuit that Dr. Hose threaded the epidural catheter too far into her spinal canal, impinged on the S-1 nerve root, and triggered dystonia, a cramping, spasmodic condition that has left her wheelchair bound. Dr. Hose and co-defendant Samaritan Health Services, the owner of Thunderbird Samaritan, respond that Dr. Hose properly administered the epidural anesthetic, deny that he caused or precipitated plaintiff's condition, and allege either that plaintiff does not suffer dystonia at all or that her condition is psychosomatic and wholly unrelated to her treatment by Dr. Hose.