Silverhart v. Mount Zion Hospital

Opinion

MOLINARI, P. J.

This is an appeal by plaintiff from a judgment for defendant hospital in an action for damages allegedly sustained by plaintiff when a surgical needle broke during a surgical operation and became permanently lodged within plaintiff’s body.

In December 1964 plaintiff entered defendant hospital for a vaginal hysterectomy to be performed by Dr. K. Warren Newgard, a specialist in the field of obstetrics and gynecology and a member of the staff of said hospital. Dr. Newgard, a practicing surgeon with over 26 years’ experience, considered the contemplated surgery to be…