Huggins v. Graves

SHACKELFORD MILLER, Jr., Circuit Judge.

This case arose from the confusing of two patients in a hospital and the consequent performing on each patient of the operation intended for the other.

In the removal of the two patients from their hospital rooms to the operating rooms, the hospital charts of the patients were mixed and each patient was then placed in the operating room scheduled for the other. The result was that the plaintiff who had been scheduled for a hemorrhoidectomy at the hands of one doctor received instead an orchidectomy and hernia operation at the hands of another doctor. At…