Zechmann v. Thigpen

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• there must be evidence that each health care provider intentionally withheld information as to the wrongful conduct in order to toll the statute of limitation
• examination revealed a minor eye condition which doctor failed to diagnose and treat; patient sustained a subsequent injury under Whitaker v. Zirkle when she developed neovascular glaucoma, causing destruction of the eye
• glaucoma developed after doctor failed to properly diagnose initial eye condition
• physician failed to diagnose a patient’s optic nerve disease, which then developed into glaucoma and resulted in the removal of the patient’s eye; statute of limitation did not begin to run until patient first experienced symptoms of glaucoma
• painful eye disorder developed into neovascular glaucoma

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).