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SOMER v. JOHNSON

No. 81-6006.

704 F.2d 1473 (1983)

Martha Marie SOMER, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Charles A. JOHNSON, M.D. P.A., a Florida Corporation, Aquiles Ascencios, and Sarasota County Public Hospital Board, d/b/a Memorial Hospital, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

May 16, 1983.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John A. Lloyd, Jr., St. Petersburg, Fla., Edwin J. Bradley, Tampa, Fla., for plaintiff-appellant.

Lawrence J. Robinson, Linda B. Robinson, G. Hunter Gibbons, Sarasota, Fla., for defendants-appellees.

Before KRAVITCH, HENDERSON and ANDERSON, Circuit Judges.

ALBERT J. HENDERSON, Circuit Judge:

The plaintiff-appellant, Martha Somer, filed this diversity action for damages in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida against the defendants, Dr. Charles Johnson, Dr. Aquiles Ascencios and the Sarasota County Public Hospital Board. She alleged that the doctors were negligent in mistakenly diagnosing her abdominal pain as an ulcer, rather than a diverticulum, thereby resulting in unnecessary surgery...

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