Leonard and Carolyn Stubbs brought suit against St. Francis Hospital, Inc., Dr. Charles Ray, III, and Radiology Associates of Columbus, P.C., Dr. Ray’s employer, for damages for medical malpractice. The Stubbses alleged that after an angioplasty performed by Dr. Ray, Leonard Stubbs developed a blood clot in his right leg and that the defendants’ negligence in delaying treatment caused problems resulting in the amputation of this leg above the knee. The defendants answered, denying liability. Eventually, the Stubbses settled with the hospital, and the hospital was dismissed with prejudice from the suit. The action against Dr. Ray and Radiology Associates was tried before a jury, which returned a defense verdict. The Stubbses appeal, contending in their sole enumeration of error that the trial court erred in charging the jury and in allowing written instructions to go out with the jury. Dr. Ray and Radiology Associates cross-appeal, conditioning consideration of the cross-appeal upon reversal of the main appeal. But because we find no error in the judgment below, we need not consider the cross-appeal. We affirm.1
1. The record shows that after his angioplasty procedure was completed, Leonard Stubbs was moved from the radiology suite, where the procedure was performed, to a floor of the hospital. The orders Dr. Ray had written included checking his right pedal pulses every 15 minutes for the first hour, then every 30 minutes for the next hour, and then twice a day. His nurse, an LPN, testified at trial that she checked his pedal pulse at noon, and it was “good.” Shortly thereafter, Stubbs began “yelling out loud with pain” and she was unable to feel a pulse in his right foot. She telephoned radiology to speak with Dr. Ray, but the woman who answered said he could not come to the telephone and took a message. The nurse testified that after holding for a moment, she was told that Dr. Ray “would be up in just a minute.” After a while, when Dr. Ray had not appeared, the nurse called radiology again. This time, she was told that Dr. Ray was in the middle of a procedure with another patient and could not leave.
