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GRAHAM v. WILLIS-KNIGHTON MEDICAL CENTER

No. 97-C-0188.

699 So.2d 365 (1997)

Melvin GRAHAM v. WILLIS-KNIGHTON MEDICAL CENTER, et al.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

Rehearing Denied October 10, 1997.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Albert M. Hand, Jr., Cook, Yancy, King & Galloway, Shreveport, for Applicant.

John L. Hammons, Nelson & Hammons, Shreveport, for Respondent.

LEMMON, Justice.

This is a medical malpractice action arising from treatment of a gunshot injury. Dr. Forrest Wright, the general surgeon who performed an emergency repair of plaintiff's lacerated intestine, properly stopped the hemorrhaging by ligating the severed external iliac artery that supplied most of the blood to plaintiff's right leg, but negligently failed to summon the on-call vascular surgeon to revascularize...

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