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BITTNER v. MILLER

No. 85-601.

410 N.W.2d 478 (1987)

226 Neb. 206

Janet BITTNER and Duane Bittner, Appellants, v. Otis W. MILLER, M.D., Appellee.

Supreme Court of Nebraska.

August 14, 1987.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Debra R. Nickels and Robert V. Roach of Welsh, Sibbernsen & Roach, Omaha, for appellants.

Richard E. Gee, Grand Island, for appellee.

BOSLAUGH, WHITE, HASTINGS, CAPORALE, SHANAHAN, and GRANT, JJ., and COLWELL, District Judge, Retired.

CAPORALE, Justice.

This is a medical malpractice case in which the plaintiffs-appellants, Janet and Duane Bittner, wife and husband, allege that the defendant-appellee, Dr. Otis W. Miller, negligently performed a surgical procedure in that he failed to properly tie Mrs. Bittner's fallopian tubes, thus permitting them to bleed after the incision was closed, and in that during the course of the procedure, he left a surgical sponge in Mrs. Bittner's body. The Bittners...

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