Guiliano v. Jefferson Radiology, P.C.

Citations

• 206 Conn. App. 603

Syllabus

The plaintiff sought to recover damages for the alleged medical malpractice of the defendants, a radiology practice and a physician, claiming that they were negligent in failing to timely diagnose a malignancy in her left breast, resulting in a delay in the diagnosis and treatment of her cancer. At trial, the plaintiff sought to offer the testimony of G, a radiolo- gist, regarding the proper standard of care, and the testimony of L, a radiology oncologist who treated the plaintiff. The defendants' counsel objected to the form of certain questions posed to G by the plaintiff's counsel, many of which the trial court sustained, and the trial court imposed a time limitation on the length of the plaintiff's direct examina- tion of L. The jury returned a verdict in favor of the defendants and the court rendered judgment for the defendants, from which the plaintiff appealed to this court. Held: 1. The plaintiff could not prevail on her claim that the trial court abused its discretion by sustaining the objections of the defendants' counsel to the form of certain questions that were posed by her counsel to G because the court's evidentiary rulings were harmless; although the court did sustain objections to certain questions asked by the plaintiff's counsel concerning the standard of care and whether the defendants had breached that standard, the trial transcripts reflected that G testified to those matters later in the proceedings. 2. This court declined to review the plaintiff's claim that the trial court abused its discretion by placing a time limit on the presentation of L's testimony, the plaintiff having failed to preserve her claim; the plaintiff raised no objection to the court over the time limit imposed and did not identify any evidence that she was unable to elicit from L due to the time limit. 3. This court declined to review the plaintiff's claim that the time limit constituted a denial of her right of access to the courts and violated article first, § 10, of the