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HEMINGWAY v. OCHSNER CLINIC

No. 83-3051.

722 F.2d 1220 (1984)

Glen R. HEMINGWAY, (Gretchen Hemingway, substituted as plaintiff-appellant for Glen R. Hemingway, deceased), Plaintiff-Appellant Cross-Appellee, v. OCHSNER CLINIC and/or Ochsner Foundation Hospital, Defendant-Appellee Cross-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

January 16, 1984.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Tschirn & Robin, John M. Robin, Darryl J. Tschirn, Covington, La., for plaintiff-appellant cross-appellee.

Adams & Reese, Henry B. Alsobrook, Jr., Jean M. Farquharson, New Orleans, La., for defendant-appellee cross-appellant.

Before GEE and GARWOOD, Circuit Judges, and EAST, District Judge.

GEE, Circuit Judge:

On several occasions in 1973, doctors at Ochsner Hospital Clinic and Ochsner Foundation Hospital prescribed to Glen Hemingway the drug Cafergot, to which he became hypersensitive. He developed dramatic symptoms of hypersensitivity and was treated for these at Ochsner, but some time went by before doctors there realized that his problems were caused by the administration of Cafergot. After a protracted...

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