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STEVENS v. UNION MEMORIAL HOSP.

No. 676, September Term, 1980.

47 Md. App. 627 (1981)

424 A.2d 1118

LISA MARIE STEVENS, INFANT, ETC. v. UNION MEMORIAL HOSPITAL ET AL.

Court of Special Appeals of Maryland.

Decided February 5, 1981.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Marian V. Fleming, with whom were Henry E. Dugan, Jr., Jerome J. Seidenman and Seidenman & Dugan, P.A. on the brief, for appellants.

Alva P. Weaver, III, with whom were Lord, Whip, Coughlan & Green, P.A. on the brief, for appellee Union Memorial Hospital. John F. King, with whom were Angus R. Everton and Anderson, Coe & King on the brief, for appellee Jerrie Cherry M.D. M. King Hill, Jr., with whom were John R. Penhallegon and Smith, Somerville & Case on the brief, for appellee K.F. Rashad, M.D.

The cause was argued before GILBERT, C.J., and MOORE and LOWE, JJ.

GILBERT, C.J., delivered the opinion of the Court.

This appeal seeks to make res ipsa loquitur viable in an alleged medical malpractice case. We are asked by the infant appellant, Lisa Marie Stevens, to hold that res ipsa loquitur has a place in medical malpractice claims, notwithstanding prior decisions by the Court of Appeals and this Court to the contrary.

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