BOUTALL, Judge.
This appeal involves medical malpractice and prescription. The sole issue is, assuming that the defendant physician did not have informed consent or any consent of the plaintiff for the performance of the surgical procedure known as a rhizotomy, what is the applicable prescriptive period to such a cause of action, i. e., one year, or ten years?
The conceded facts are that Mildred Hall Lombardo underwent a laminectomy at Methodist Hospital,...
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