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MARTIN v. REIKES

No. 07-CA-59332.

587 So.2d 285 (1991)

Laverne MARTIN and Garlon Martin v. Dan REIKES, M.D., Carl Hale, M.D., D.F. Kobs, Jr., and Charles E. Strauss, M.D.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

September 25, 1991.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

V. Douglas Gunter, Jackson, Alfred L. Felder, McComb, Margaret P. Ellis, Kitchens & Ellis, Pascagoula, for appellants.

Lawrence C. Gunn, Jr., Gunn & Roberts, Hattiesburg, for appellees.

Robert A. Pritchard, Pritchard & Chapman, Pascagoula, William R. Phillips, Jackson, Henry P. Pate, III, Pascagoula, for intervenors.

Before ROY NOBLE LEE, PRATHER and ROBERTSON, JJ.

PRATHER, Justice, for the Court:

I. INTRODUCTION

In 1974, Dr. J.P. Culpepper, a Hattiesburg surgeon, performed a hysterectomy on Laverne Martin. Subsequent tests on Martin's removed uterus revealed the presence of uterine cancer. Dr. Culpepper and a "conference of doctors" recommended to Martin that she undergo radiation treatment. The treatments allegedly led to various side effects, which Martin contended were...

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