ROBINSON v. PARRISH

No. 82-8580.

720 F.2d 1548 (1983)

Larry D. ROBINSON, Joan Robinson, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Dr. Joe E. PARRISH, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

December 15, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jack F. Witcher, John W. Kilgo, Bremen, Ga., for plaintiffs-appellants.

David H. Tisinger, Thomas E. Greer, Carrollton, Ga., for defendants-appellees.

Before RONEY and HILL, Circuit Judges, and MORGAN, Senior Circuit Judge.


PER CURIAM:

Joan and Larry Robinson, the appellants, originally filed this diversity action in 1976 in the Northern District of Georgia. They claimed that the defendant-appellee, a medical doctor, negligently performed a laparoscopic tubal ligation on Mrs. Robinson in 1975. This surgical procedure is designed to permanently sterilize a woman and is relative risk free, but Mrs. Robinson's small intestine was punctured during the operation and she suffered serious pain...

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