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BELL v. WEST HARRISON COUNTY DIST.

No. 57625.

523 So.2d 1031 (1988)

Doris BELL and Ersel Bell, Appellant, v. WEST HARRISON COUNTY DISTRICT, d/b/a Memorial Hospital at Gulfport, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

April 27, 1988.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John G. McDonnell, Valerie D. Hiller, Brown & McDonnell, Biloxi, for appellant.

Sally G. Gray, Franke, Rainey & Salloum, Gulfport, for appellee.

Before DAN M. LEE, P.J., and ROBERTSON and ZUCCARO, JJ.

ZUCCARO, Justice, for the court:

The Court is called on this day to decide whether the two-year "medical malpractice" statute of limitations set out at Miss. Code Ann. § 15-1-36 (Supp. 1987) applies to a situation where a nurse failed to raise the rails of a bed for a patient under heavy sedation, resulting in the patient falling out of the bed and being injured. The Circuit Court of Harrison County determined that § 15-1-36 was applicable and dismissed...

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