Bittner v. Miller

This is a medical malpractice case in which the plaintiffs-appellants, Janet and Duane Bittner, wife and husband, allege that the defendant-appellee, Dr. Otis W. Miller, negligently performed a surgical procedure in that he failed to properly tie Mrs. Bittner’s fallopian tubes, thus permitting them to bleed after the incision was closed, and in that during the course of the procedure, he left a surgical sponge in Mrs. Bittner’s body. The Bittners also allege that as a proximate result of that negligence Mrs. Bittner suffered extreme shock and required blood transfusions and further surgery,…