Zaleck v. Everett Clinic

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• plaintiff who knew of his injury but failed to inquire of either a doctor or a lawyer was deemed to have failed to exercise due diligence
• plaintiff who knew of his injury but failed to inquire of either a doctor or a lawyer was deemed to have failed to exercise due diligence
• where plaintiff knew facts comprising causation and damage elements, his failure to simply inquire of lawyer or physician for over four years conclusively demonstrates lack of due diligence
• a reasonable person would have begun to doubt, sooner than in 4M> years, his physician's assurances that the patient's numb thumb, existing from the time of a painful injection of cortisone when the physician said he may have hit a nerve, was only a \temporary\ symptom

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