RINGEWALD v. CRAWFORD W. LONG MEMORIAL HOSPITAL

75232.

184 Ga. App. 569 (1987)

362 S.E.2d 105

RINGEWALD v. CRAWFORD W. LONG MEMORIAL HOSPITAL et al.

Court of Appeals of Georgia.

Rehearing Denied October 19, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Steven J. Misner, Richard P. Lindsey, for appellant.

Dennis A. Elisco, Lance D. Lourie, J. M. Hudgins IV, Hunter S. Allen, Jr., for appellees.


DEEN, Presiding Judge.

On July 3, 1984, the appellant, Dr. Robert H. Ringewald, underwent quadruple coronary artery bypass surgery at Crawford W. Long Memorial Hospital. Later that same day, a second operation was necessary to remove a "bulldog clamp" that the operating physician inadvertently left in Ringewald's chest cavity.

On July 1, 1986, within two years of the surgery but over one year from the date he discovered that the "bulldog clamp" had been left...

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