Lipsey v. Michael Reese Hospital

The plaintiff, Elise Lipsey, brought suit on December 14, 1966, against Dr. Gerald Menaker and Michael Reese Hospital (hereafter, the Hospital) alleging that the defendants in 1963 negligently advised that a cancerous condition of the plaintiff was noncancerous, and as a consequence she was required to undergo a forequarter amputation of her left arm, shoulder and breast. Suit was not brought within two years of this claimed negligence (see Ill. Rev. Stat. 1969, ch. 83, par. 15) but it was, the plaintiff alleged, brought within two years of the time she discovered the defendants’ negligence.…