The first cause states a claim of medical malpractice based upon an appendectomy performed on plaintiff by defendant-appellant surgeon in July, 1961. As appears by the hospital record dictated by defendant operating surgeon within days of the surgery, the "wound was closed using a few interrupted #0 surgaloy buried figure-of-eight wire sutures; continuous chromic #1 catgut on peritoneum catching the surgaloy wire sutures before they were tied; interrupted chromic #1 catgut...
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