Legal Opinion
Mazer v. Lipshutz
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided April 1, 1966No. Nos. 15447-15449PublishedCited by 20 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
McLAUGHLIN, Circuit Judge.
In this medical malpractice action the wrong type of blood was administered to plaintiff’s decedent during the course of an operation upon him. In addition, one of two sponges left in the patient after the completion of the operation was never removed. At the first trial there were judgments in favor of the surgeon in charge, Dr. Lipshutz and the anesthesiologist, Dr. Chodoff. On appeal we reversed the judgment in favor of Dr. Lipshutz and ordered a new trial. We affirmed the judgment in favor of Dr. Chodoff. Mazer v. Lipshutz, 327 F.2d 42 (3 Cir. 1963), rehearing…
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