Ruth v. Dight

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• recognizing that the application of statutes of limitation in medical malpractice cases has been a vexing and continuous source of judicial uncertainty
• reexamining past interpretation of statue of limitations in light of “constant intellectual bombardment”
• physician left sponge in patient's body during surgery and symptoms relating to sponge did not manifest themselves until after the traditional statute of limitations expired
• plaintiff “should be accorded the right of asserting that she had no reasonable way of ascertaining that a wrong had been done her.”
• plaintiff \should be accorded the right of asserting that she had no reasonable way of ascertaining that a wrong had been done her.\
• superseded by statute as stated in Teeter v. Lawson, 25 Wash.App. 560, 561, 610 P.2d 925 (1980)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).