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MATTHEWS v. LA. STATE UNIV. MEDICAL CENTER

No. 16860-CA.

467 So.2d 1238 (1985)

Emma MATTHEWS, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER IN SHREVEPORT, Defendant-Appellee.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Second Circuit.

April 3, 1985.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Maynard E. Cush and James D. Partin, Shreveport, for plaintiff-appellant.

A. Mills McCawley, Shreveport, for defendant-appellee.

Before MARVIN and FRED W. JONES, Jr., JJ., and PRICE, J. Pro Tem.

MARVIN, Judge.

In this medical malpractice action, Emma Matthews appeals a judgment rejecting her demands for damages for failure of doctors at the LSU Medical Center to diagnose infected "spitting" sutures after surgery. We affirm.

Plaintiff entered the Medical Center on February 21, 1978 with symptoms of intestinal blockage. A surgical team performed an exploratory laparotomy and diagnosed her condition as diverticulosis of the colon. A right transverse...

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