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TAMS v. KOTZ

No. 83-1061.

530 A.2d 1217 (1987)

Alice B. TAMS, Appellant, v. Herbert L. KOTZ, M.D., Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided September 17, 1987.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William A. Mann, with whom Darrel L. Longest, Rockville, Md., was on the brief, for appellant.

Steven A. Hamilton, with whom William F. Causey, Rockville, Md., was on the brief, for appellee.

Before BELSON and TERRY, Associate Judges, and REILLY, Senior Judge.

REILLY, Senior Judge:

This is an appeal from a judgment in favor of Dr. Kotz, a surgeon sued by a patient operated upon for intestinal cancer, who had to undergo surgery again to remove a foreign object inadvertently left inside the abdominal wall when such operation was completed. At the second operation, the surgeon discovered a laparotomy pad1 which had adhered to some intestinal membrane. Its extraction also required removing a damaged...

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