The Michigan Supreme Court ruled in favor of people with medical malpractice claims Thursday.

The court, divided 4-3, reversed a state Court of Appeals decision allowing a claim to proceed against a physician's assistant accused of misdiagnosing a boy's bone infection. 13 year-old Patrick Griesbach went to Walled Lake Medical Center for pain in his right leg on July 2, 2002, where he was examined by physician's assistant Robert R. Ross. Ross prescribed numerous drugs to the child, but failed to diagnose a bone infection. Griesbach later underwent emergency surgey and sustained irreversible cartilage damage in his hip.

Dissenting Justice Stephen Markman criticized the court for taking on powers that belong to the Legislature, saying the court's majority decision "ought to be deeply troubling to citizens of this state concerned about representative government."

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