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McCAFFERTY v. MEDICAL COLLEGE OF GA.

37727.

249 Ga. 62 (1982)

287 S.E.2d 171

McCAFFERTY et al. v. MEDICAL COLLEGE OF GEORGIA et al.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

Rehearing Denied February 23, 1982.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Burnside & Wall, James B. Wall, Thomas R. Burnside, Jr., for appellant.

Michael J. Bowers, Attorney General, Patrick W. McKee, Staff Assistant Attorney General, for appellees.

Don C. Keenan, James E. Butler, Jr., E. Marcus Davis, William F. Braziel, Jr., Charles H. Ivy, Arlene L. Coleman, Cynthia J. Ringo, amici curiae.

James T. Cook, amicus curiae.

HILL, Presiding Justice.

According to the complaint, Jessica McCafferty was born two months prematurely on April 6, 1979, at a private hospital in Augusta. Because of a possible abdominal obstruction she was transferred the next day to Eugene Talmadge Memorial Hospital as a paying patient. At Talmadge Memorial she was placed in neonatal intensive care and given normal saline solutions intravenously until she would be able to undergo abdominal surgery. On April 14...

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