Babcock v. Lafayette Home Hospital, Womans Clinic

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• finding the doctrine inapplicable where the alleged injury was the retention of a surgical sponge inside the patient, determining that leaving the sponge behind and, later, misreading a chest x-ray were “isolated” events
• plaintiff's delay unreasonable when complaint filed one year after learning doctor might have left sponge in body cavity during hysterectomy, and three years after the procedure oc curred

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