Medical Review Panel ex rel. Apken v. Kushner

JiDUFRESNE, Judge.

This is an appeal by Vera Apken from a judgment sustaining an exception of prescription urged by defendants, Dr. Kenneth Kushner d/b/a The Heart Clinic of Louisiana, et al., in this medical malpractice matter. For the following reasons, we affirm that judgment.

The pertinent facts are as follows. On April 10, 1994, Walter Apken, Vera’s husband, severely bruised his leg when he fell down in a chartered bus during a sudden stop. A week later, on April 18, he saw Dr. Robert Murphy, an internist, for this injury. On April 19, he appeared at the emergency room of West Jefferson…