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BURNSIDE v. EVANGELICAL DEACONESS HOSPITAL

No. 187.

46 Wis.2d 519 (1970)

175 N.W.2d 230

BURNSIDE, Appellant, v. EVANGELICAL DEACONESS HOSPITAL and others, Respondents.

Supreme Court of Wisconsin.

Decided March 31, 1970.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

For the appellant there were briefs and oral argument by John A. Udovc of Milwaukee.

For the respondents there was a brief by Wickham, Borgelt, Skogstad & Powell, attorneys, and Donald R. Peterson of counsel, all of Milwaukee, and oral argument by Mr. Peterson.

HALLOWS, C. J.

Burnside, thirty-five years old and a machinist for fifteen years, first experienced pain in his back in 1951 and has had continual back trouble since 1955. In the spring of 1966, he consulted several doctors but treatment failed to relieve the pain. In September of 1966, he was referred to the defendant Dr. Jack D. Spankus, an orthopedic surgeon who on September 11, 1966, performed a laminectomy and discectomy on a herniated disc between the fourth...

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