Ivey v. Scoggins

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the foreign object exception applies where a single physician placed and left a foreign object in the patient’s body during treatment; physician may be charged with actual' knowledge
• holding that when a doctor conducting a surgical procedure negligently and inadvertently placed and left a suture in an organ not involved in the procedure, the suture was a “foreign object” under OCGA § 9-3-72
• suture necessitated removal of left kidney

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).