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JENKINS v. DYESS

No. 35,923-CW.

821 So.2d 722 (2002)

Edna Jo JENKINS, Plaintiff-Respondent v. Jerry C. DYESS, M.D., Defendant-Applicant.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Second Circuit.

June 19, 2002.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Pugh, Pugh & Pugh, by Robert G. Pugh, Jr., Shreveport, for Applicant.

Nelson, Hammons & Self, by John L. Hammons, Hutton W. Sentell, Shreveport, for Respondent.

Before BROWN, WILLIAMS, GASKINS, CARAWAY and PEATROSS, JJ.

CARAWAY, J.

We granted supervisory writs to review the trial court's denial of the defendant-physician's exception of prescription. After a mammogram was taken in 1992 revealing the need to biopsy a lump in plaintiff's breast, the defendant did not relate the need for the biopsy to plaintiff. Later, after more than three years passed with no further treatment by the doctor, plaintiff was diagnosed with breast cancer and...

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