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ELLIOTT v. ROBINSON

No. 24290-CA.

612 So.2d 996 (1993)

Retha R. ELLIOTT, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Dr. E.B. ROBINSON, Defendant-Appellee.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Second Circuit.

Rehearing Denied February 18, 1993.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Law Offices of Edmund M. Thomas by Edmund M. Thomas, Law Offices of James Don Thomas by Thomas M. Lockwood, Baton Rouge, for plaintiff-appellant.

Mayer, Smith & Roberts by Paul R. Mayer, Jr., Shreveport, defendant-appellee.

Before NORRIS, VICTORY and STEWART, JJ.

NORRIS, Judge.

The plaintiff, Retha R. Elliott, appeals a judgment that dismissed her medical malpractice claim against Dr. E.B. Robinson, a general surgeon who performed a carpal tunnel release on her left hand in February 1984. On appeal she urges that Dr. Robinson breached the standard of care by failing to offer her a course of conservative treatment, which would have obviated the need for surgery, and by negligently injuring the motor and sensory branches of...

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