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HILL v. HIGHLAND PARK GEN. HOSPITAL

Docket No. 28161.

80 Mich. App. 334 (1977)

263 N.W.2d 362

HILL v. HIGHLAND PARK GENERAL HOSPITAL

Michigan Court of Appeals.

Decided December 22, 1977.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Zeff & Zeff (by Nathan E. Shur), for plaintiff.

Kitch & Suhrheinrich, P.C. (by Gregory G. Drutchas), for defendant.

Amicus Curiae: Beer, Boltz & Bennia (by Sandra G. Silver), for the Society of Oral Surgeons. Cooper, Baskin & Feldstein, for the Michigan Academy of Plastic Surgeons.

Before: J.H. GILLIS, P.J., and BRONSON and R.E. ROBINSON, JJ.

J.H. GILLIS, P.J.

In the late evening of July 12, 1966, plaintiff was assaulted and injured. At approximately 2:30 a.m. of July 13, 1966, he was admitted to defendant hospital. Plaintiff was diagnosed as having a broken jaw. Ten days after his admittance to the hospital, plaintiff was operated upon by Dr. Newby, a plastic surgeon. This ten-day wait was apparently due to infection and swelling. During the operation, Dr. Newby drove a steel pin through plaintiff's jaw...

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