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BURKE v. WASHINGTON HOSPITAL CENTER

Civ. A. No. 2975-67.

293 F.Supp. 1328 (1968)

Mary BURKE and Albert O. Burke, Plaintiffs, v. WASHINGTON HOSPITAL CENTER and Ernest W. Lowe, Defendants.

United States District Court District of Columbia.

December 6, 1968.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

A. Lillian C. Kennedy and Mabel D. Haden, Washington, D. C., for plaintiffs.

John L. Laskey, Washington, D.C., for defendant Washington Hospital Center.

John L. Ridge, Jr., and J. Harry Welch, Washington, D.C., for defendant Lowe.

OPINION

HOLTZOFF, District Judge.

The question presented in this case is when the statute of limitations begins to run in an action against a physician, a nurse, or a hospital for negligence in leaving a foreign substance, such as a sponge, a piece of gauze, or a needle, in a patient's body after a surgical operation; specifically, whether the period of limitations starts when the object is left in the wound, or when its presence in the patient's body is...

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