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· 1/21/1970

Nicholson v. Sisters of Charity of Providence

Citations

  • 463 P.2d 861
  • 255 Or. 251
  • 1970 Ore. LEXIS 398

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  • coming to the same result where a surgeon left a safety pin in the patient’s abdomen
  • where regardless of who had the duty to take care of and account for the instruments, the doctors had exclusive actual control of everything that went in and came out of the body cavity and could be directly liable

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Judges: Perry, McAllister, Sloan, O'Connell, Denecke, Holman

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