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JONES v. ST. FRANCIS CABRINI HOSP.

No. 94-C-2217.

652 So.2d 1331 (1995)

Billie Jo JONES, et al. v. ST. FRANCIS CABRINI HOSPITAL , et al.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

April 10, 1995.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harry Alston Johnson, III, Phelps Dunbar, Baton Rouge, Charles H. Munsterman, Alexandria, for applicant.

Milo Addison Nickel, Jr., Woodley, Williams, Fenet, Boudreau, Norman & Brown, Lake Charles, for respondent.

Troy E. Bain, Shreveport, for Troy E. Bain and Louisiana Trial Lawyers Ass'n amicus curiae.

Lawrence S. Kullman, New Orleans, for Louisiana Trial Lawyers Ass'n amicus curiae.

MARCUS, Justice*.

On February 5, 1989, Mrs. Ruby Lee Jones, age 75, was admitted to St. Frances Cabrini Hospital (Cabrini) with a broken hip. Dr. John Weiss, an orthopedist, diagnosed her condition as a fracture of the left hip and performed surgery to place a screw nail in the bone to compress the fracture.

Prior to surgery, blood tests were performed and suggested that Mrs. Jones had anemia. Dr. Harishwar Agarwal, a specialist...

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