Legal Opinion
McCafferty v. Medical College of Ga.
Supreme Court of Georgia
Decided February 4, 1982No. 37727PublishedCited by 29 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Hill, Presiding Justice.
According to the complaint, Jessica McCafferty was born two months prematurely on April 6, 1979, at a private hospital in Augusta. Because of a possible abdominal obstruction she was transferred the next day to Eugene Talmadge Memorial Hospital as a paying patient. At Talmadge Memorial she was placed in neonatal intensive care and given normal saline solutions intravenously until she would be able to undergo abdominal surgery. On April 14,1979, a concentrated intravenous saline solution, inappropriate for direct administration without dilution, allegedly was injected…
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