Dean v. Dravo Corporation

McFADDEN, Justice.

Claimant-appellant Desmond Dean underwent corrective surgery on August 31, 1970 for recurrent shoulder dislocation. The operation, known as a capsulorrhaphy, was done by Dr. Robert C. Colburn, an orthopedic surgeon, on Dean’s left shoulder following a series of three shoulder dislocations. The facts and circumstances of these dislocations are set out with particularity in Dean v. Dravo Corporation, 95 Idaho 558, 511 P.2d 1334 (1973). For our purposes we note that Dean’s first dislocation was the result of an industrial accident on October 14, 1969. The second dislocation…