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holding that "[w]here a physician places a foreign object in his patient's body during treatment, he has actual knowledge of its presence . . . [h]is failure to remove it goes beyond ordinary negligence"
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35403.
ARGUED NOVEMBER 13, 1979.
DECIDED FEBRUARY 5, 1980.
Certiorari to the Court of Appeals of Georgia — 150 Ga. App. 499 ( 254 S.E.2d 592) (1979).
Spivey Carlton, Robert S. Reeves, for appellant.
Ralph Bowden, III, F. Saunders Aldridge, III, for appellees.
Upon further consideration we conclude that certiorari was improvidently granted.
Writ dismissed. Nichols, C. J., Undercofler, P. J., Jordan, Hill, Bowles and Marshall, JJ., and Judge Charles L. Weltner, concur. Clarke, J., not participating.