Ringewald v. Crawford W. Long Memorial Hospital

Deen, Presiding Judge.

On July 3, 1984, the appellant, Dr. Robert H. Ringewald, underwent quadruple coronary artery bypass surgery at Crawford W. Long Memorial Hospital. Later that same day, a second operation was necessary to remove a “bulldog clamp” that the operating physician inadvertently left in Ringewald’s chest cavity.

On July 1,1986, within two years of the surgery but over one year from the date he discovered that the/ “bulldog clamp” had been left in his chest, Ringewald commenced this action against the operating physician and the hospital, and others associated with the operation.…