Providence Hospital v. Truly

HALL, Justice.

On May 14, 1975, appellee Mrs. Goldie E. Truly submitted to cataract surgery on her right eye by Dr. Stanley Hersh, an ophthalmologist selected by her, while she was a patient in appellant Providence Hospital for that purpose. The final act in the surgery was the injection into the eye of a fluid drug known as “Mioehol.” The injection was made by Dr. Hersh through the needle of a syringe inserted between sutures which had closed the surgical incision. The vial containing the Mioehol was supplied to the surgery room by appellant from appellant’s hospital pharmacy. In the surgery…