Schwartz v. Abay

How courts have described this case

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• holding common knowledge exception applied when physician admitted to malpractice by operating on wrong vertebral disc
• applying the common 8 knowledge exception when the surgeon removed a significant portion of the wrong vertebral disc
• applying the common-knowledge exception when the surgeon removed 60% of the wrong vertebral disc
• applying exception where surgeon removed 60% of the wrong vertebral disc
• collecting more cases where a nurse failed to call a doctor when a woman went into labor and suffered severe complications and where a “physician left a plastic tube in patient’s throat for 36 hours after surgery”
• applying exception where surgeon removed 60% of the wrong vertebral disc

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).