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BOURGEOIS v. OCHSNER FOUNDATION HOSP. AND CLINIC

No. 89-CA-164.

550 So.2d 1229 (1989)

Robert Andrew BOURGEOIS, Sr. v. OCHSNER FOUNDATION HOSPITAL AND CLINIC and Dr. Gordon McFarland.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied November 17, 1989.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Iddo Pittman, Jr., Hammond, for plaintiff/appellant.

Henry B. Alsobrook, Jr., Joseph P. Gordon, Adams and Reese, New Orleans, for defendants/appellees.

Before KLIEBERT and GOTHARD, JJ., and M. JOSEPH TIEMANN, J. pro tem.

GOTHARD, Judge.

This appeal is from a judgment in favor of the defendant physician in a medical malpractice suit.

Robert A. Bourgeois received a bone graft to his left wrist in surgery performed at Ochsner Foundation Hospital by Dr. Gordon McFarland, an orthopedist specializing in hand surgery, on May 17, 1983. The graft required harvesting bone from the iliac crest of the left hip, in the course of which the lateral femoral cutaneous nerve was injured, causing...

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