Slimak v. Foster

The plaintiff offered evidence from which the jury might reasonably have found that while the defendant, a physician and surgeon specializing in the treatment of diseases of the eye, ear, nose and throat, was performing an operation upon the plaintiff for the removal of a bony spur from the left nostril of his nose, a blade of the instrument which he was using broke off in the cartilage of the nose and remained lodged therein. The defendant did not remove this broken piece or inform the plaintiff of its presence, but gave him treatment two or three times thereafter; neither did he complete…