Section 30 Fears of Future Medical Complications

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Many times, the possibility of complications arising from a person’s injury are so remote that medical testimony will not be permitted on the subject. But if the possibility of future complications and surgery causes worry and anguish on the part of the injured party, both items are admissible. For example, in Hoffman v. St. Louis Public Service Co., 255 S.W.2d 736, 743 (Mo. 1953), the Court held that testimony concerning the remote possibility that the plaintiff, who lost one ovary in the accident, might...