Steven N. Joyner and Vickie Joyner v. Glen A. Forney, M.D. Lawrence W. O'holleran, M.D. And Forney, Westerbuhr Surgical Associates, Inc.

MORRIS SHEPPARD ARNOLD, Circuit Judge.

In April, 1991, Steven Joyner underwent an operation to alleviate heavy bleeding from hemorrhoids and pain from a fissure (a linear ulcer) on his anus. The following month, he underwent a second operation to drain a painful abscess that had developed in his rectum (the rectum is the lowest portion of the large intestine and ends at the anal opening). Almost immediately after the second operation, Mr. Joyner began suffering from fecal incontinence on a daily basis. In early 1994, he underwent a third operation that corrected his fecal incontinence to a…