RICHARD v. COLOMB

Nos. 2004 CA 1145, 2004 CA 1146.

916 So.2d 1122 (2005)

Bobbie Jo RICHARD v. Dr. Keith A. COLOMB.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, First Circuit.

June 29, 2005.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Matthew F. Block, Thibodaux, Counsel for Plaintiff/Appellee Bobbie Jo Richard.

Richard B. Ehret, Assistant Attorney General, New Orleans, Counsel for Defendant/Appellant State of Louisiana through the Department of Health and Human Resources.

Before: GUIDRY, GAIDRY, and McCLENDON, J.J.


McCLENDON, J.

In these consolidated medical malpractice cases, the defendant, Dr. John O. Dampeer, appealed the award of $35,000.00 in favor of plaintiff, Ms. Bobbie Jo Richard. Finding that the patient, Ms. Richard, was not informed that an unnecessary and unrelated educational procedure or technique might be undertaken by Dr. Dampeer during the consented to operation to remove her gall bladder, we affirm.

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