TERRELL v. WEST PACES FERRY HOSPITAL

64210.

162 Ga. App. 783 (1982)

292 S.E.2d 433

TERRELL et al. v. WEST PACES FERRY HOSPITAL, INC. et al.

Court of Appeals of Georgia.

Rehearing Denied July 1, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Platon P. Constantinides, for appellants.

Hunter S. Allen, Jr., Lorraine D. Hess, W. Ray Eckl, Ross Friend, for appellees.


BANKE, Judge.

This is an appeal from a summary judgment for the defendants in a medical malpractice action. Two of the defendants are physicians, and the third is the hospital where the plaintiff underwent a series of operations. The first of these operations involved the removal of part of his duodenum. Following this surgery, the suture lines across the duodenal stump began to leak, discharging intestinal material into the plaintiff's abdomen. Several more operations...

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