JENKINS v. HOSP. OF MEDICAL COLLEGE


401 Pa.Super. 604 (1991)

585 A.2d 1091

Gwendolyn JENKINS, Appellant, v. HOSPITAL OF the MEDICAL COLLEGE OF PENNSYLVANIA and Dr. Carol Grabowski and Dr. Dorothy M. Barbo.

Superior Court of Pennsylvania.

Filed January 31, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mark Jurikson, Philadelphia, for appellant.

Nancy G. Rhoads, Philadelphia, for appellee.

Before ROWLEY, WIEAND, OLSZEWSKI, MONTEMURO, BECK, KELLY, POPOVICH, JOHNSON and FORD ELLIOTT, JJ.


ROWLEY, Judge:*

On March 8, 1984, appellant Gwendolyn Jenkins gave birth to a male child, Cory, who suffers from Down's syndrome. Immediately thereafter appellant underwent a tubal ligation, a sterilization procedure. In the present action against the Hospital of the Medical College of Pennsylvania and Doctors Carol Grabowski and Dorothy Barbo, the physicians attending at Cory's birth, all of whom are appellees herein, appellant asserts...

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