On September 15, 1974, defendant Dr. Driss Hassam performed an emergency appendectomy on plaintiff at the Champlain Valley Physicians Hospital Medical Center, a named codefendant. At the conclusion of the surgery, Dr. Hassam used No. 2-0 mersilene sutures to close the operative site. In January, 1979, plaintiff was again seen by Dr. Hassam when she complained of a lump in the area of the surgical sutures. Plaintiff was admitted to the defendant hospital on March 18, 1979...
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