CLAIM AGAINST DOCTOR.
SEQUEL TO AN OPERATION. PATIENT’S SERIOUS CHARGE. By felegrapli—Press Association. Christchurch, Last Night. At the Supreme Court to-day, before Mr. Justice Herdman, Ada Fleming, a married woman, proceeded against Maurice Louisson, medical practitioner, claiming £1730 damages for alleged negligence in treating her during an illness. Plaintiff claimed that in the course of an operation defendant negligently and unskilfully either left in a wound certain swabs, or allowed those who were assisting him in the operation. a,nd acting under his control to do soj also that after the operation defendant omitted to explore the wound in order to ascertain if any foreign body was present in it, and that when dressing the wound he omitted to use sterilised instruments. The defence was a denial of plaintiff’s allegations. The case has not been finished.
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Taranaki Daily News, 7 June 1921, Page 5
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135CLAIM AGAINST DOCTOR. Taranaki Daily News, 7 June 1921, Page 5
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