NEESE v. SHAWNEE MEDICAL CENTER HOSP., INC.

No. 60270.

733 P.2d 383 (1986)

Robert F. NEESE and Johnnye Neese, Appellants, v. SHAWNEE MEDICAL CENTER HOSPITAL, INC., a corporation; T.A. Balan; Shawnee Medical Center Clinic, Inc., a corporation; Zimmer-Hoffman Associates, a domestic corporation; and Zimmer U.S.A., Inc., a corporation, Appellees.

Supreme Court of Oklahoma.

As Corrected on Denial of Rehearing February 2, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Howard K. Berry, Jr., Berry & Berry, P.C., Oklahoma City, for appellants,

Robert H. Gilliland, Jr., McAfee & Taft, Calvin W. Hendrickson, Pierce, Couch, Hendrickson, Johnston & Baysinger, Oklahoma City, for appellees.


SUMMERS, Justice.

In 1974 appellant Robert F. Neese suffered a back injury while unloading a sofa from a truck. He was hospitalized and elected to have back surgery by Dr. Balan at the Shawnee Medical Center Hospital. During the surgery the tip of a stainless steel surgical forceps, a pituitary rongeur, broke off in the patient's spinal area. Dr. Balan and his assisting surgeons were unable to retrieve the tip and it remains...

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