to apply common- knowledge exception, injury must be of the type that ordinarily would not occur absent medical negligence
How later courts described this case
- to apply common- knowledge exception, injury must be of the type that ordinarily would not occur absent medical negligence
- the surgeon, the anesthetist, and a resident physician were defendants; the alleged injuries resulted from administration of anesthesia
- surgeon exercising staff privileges had liability for anesthetist in hospital’s residency program
Written by the judges who cited it.
The opinion
Price, J.,
dissents in part, being of the opinion that the demurrer of the defendant, John I. Davies, was properly sustained.