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Woods v. Long Manufacturing N.C., Inc.

Supreme Court of Georgia
Feb 5, 1980
264 S.E.2d 4 (Ga. 1980)

Summary

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"

Summary of this case from Beckett v. Beebe Medical Center, Inc.

Opinion

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.


ARGUED NOVEMBER 13, 1979 — DECIDED FEBRUARY 5, 1980.


Summaries of

Woods v. Long Manufacturing N.C., Inc.

Supreme Court of Georgia
Feb 5, 1980
264 S.E.2d 4 (Ga. 1980)

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"

Summary of this case from Beckett v. Beebe Medical Center, Inc.

holding that particles of ceramic glass were not "foreign objects"

Summary of this case from Beckett v. Beebe Medical Center, Inc.
Case details for

Woods v. Long Manufacturing N.C., Inc.

Case Details

Full title:WOODS v. LONG MANUFACTURING N.C., INC. et al

Court:Supreme Court of Georgia

Date published: Feb 5, 1980

Citations

264 S.E.2d 4 (Ga. 1980)
245 Ga. 162

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