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HALL v. ARTHUR

Nos. 97-1558, 97-1628.

141 F.3d 844 (1998)

John HALL and Linda Hall, Appellees, v. James ARTHUR, M.D., and Allan C. Gocio, M.D., Appellants, and Hot Springs Neurosurgery Clinic, P.A., and St. Joseph's Regional Health Center, Inc., Defendants. John HALL and Linda Hall, Appellees, v. James ARTHUR, M.D.; Allan C. Gocio, M.D.; and Hot Springs Neurosurgery Clinic, P.A., Defendants, and St. Joseph's Regional Health Center, Inc., Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided April 6, 1998.

Rehearing Denied May 5, 1998.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert S. Shafer, Little Rock, AR (J. Phillip Malcom and Tonia P. Jones, on the brief), for appellant doctors.

Don S. McKinney, Little Rock, AR

Before RICHARD S. ARNOLD, Chief Judge, MORRIS SHEPPARD ARNOLD, Circuit Judge, and SACHS, District Judge.

MORRIS SHEPPARD ARNOLD, Circuit Judge.

Dr. James Arthur is a neurosurgeon at St. Joseph's Regional Health Center in Hot Springs, Arkansas. One type of surgery that Dr. Arthur performs is called an anterior cervical diskectomy and fusion surgery ("ACF surgery"). To perform such a procedure, a surgeon removes damaged disk material from a patient's spine and usually replaces it with another object. The goal is for the patient...

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