Dalbey v. Banks

Bowles, Justice.

Certiorari was granted to review the Court of Appeals’ opinion in Banks v. Dalbey, 150 Ga. App. 779 (258 SE2d 701) (1979), and to decide what statute of limitations is to apply in a medical malpractice case where a foreign object is left in the patient’s body by a doctor during treatment to remove the foreign body.

Briefly repeating the facts stated by the Court of Appeals, Banks cut his hand on a ceramic vase on August 24, 1974. On that same day, Dalbey, a medical doctor, treated Banks and attempted to remove the glass from his wound. The cut healed and the treatment appeared…