Connor v. Allegheny General Hospital

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · Decided 1983-04-27

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OPINION LARSEN, Justice. On November 22, 1973, appellant Mary E. Connor was admitted as an emergency patient to appellee Allegheny General Hospital with abdominal distress. As part of her treatment, on November 26, 1973 appellant underwent a barium enema. During the procedure, and continuing for several hours thereafter, barium solution leaked out of a perforation in appellant’s colon into her abdominal cavi…

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