Supreme Court of Virginia June 14, 1985, Record 820473 (Brown v. Koulizakis)

COMPTON, J.,

delivered the opinion of the Court.

In this medical malpractice case, we review the action of the trial court in entering summary judgment for the defendants at the conclusion of the plaintiffs evidence.

Stefan Alexander Mader died of a pulmonary embolism in 1978 in The Fairfax Hospital. In 1980, Mader’s executor filed this wrongful death action in the court below against appellees E.