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COLEMAN v. RICE

No. 94-CT-00807-SCT.

706 So.2d 696 (1997)

Dorothy COLEMAN v. Paul RICE, M.D. and Carl Reddix, M.D.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

December 11, 1997.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Arthur F. Jernigan, Jr., Reuben V. Anderson, James W. Craig, Phelps Dunbar, Jackson, for Appellant.

Walter T. Johnson, Mildred M. Morris, Christopher B. Bradford, Watkins & Eager, Jackson, Whitman B. Johnson, III, Boty McDonald, Currie Johnson Griffin Gaines & Myers, Jackson, for Appellee.

William A. Whitehead, Jr., F.M. Turner, III, Bryan Nelson Randolph & Weathers, Hattiesburg, Jimmie B. Reynolds, Jr., Lee Wall Rikard, Steen Reynolds & Dalehite, Jackson, William C. Walter, Brunini Grantham Grower & Hewes, Jackson, Rebecca B. Cowan, Robert M. Jones, Montgomery Smith-Vaniz & McGraw, Jackson, for amicus curiae.

En Banc.

MILLS, Justice, for the Court:

¶ 1. In July 1992 Dorothy Coleman underwent a hysterectomy in the Methodist Medical Center in Jackson, Mississippi. The procedure was performed by Dr. Paul Rice, chief surgeon for the procedure, and Dr. Carl Reddix, who assisted in the procedure. Coleman continued to experience complications after the surgery, and in October 1992 another operation was performed. It was found that a laparotomy sponge had been left inside Coleman...

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