DOCTOR SUED.
WOMAN PATIENT'S CLAIM
SISTER'S ALLEGED MISTAKE. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) DUXEDIN, Tuesday. The question of vicarious liability of a surgeon for the negligence of a member of his operating theatre stall" was further discussed, before Mr. Justice Kennedy in the Supreme Court in Dunedin to-day when the case in which Isabel Daisy Ingram claimed £700 from Dr. Henry Walden Fitzgerald was con eluded. The claim ar<j>se out of the painting of plaintiff in the operating theatre with iodised phenol, instead of with tincture of iodine. The mistake was allegedly made by one of the attendant sisters in the theatre'. The remaining evidence for the defence was heard this morning, and this afternoon was devoted to legal argument. His Honor said he would take time to consider his judgment.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 207, 2 September 1936, Page 10
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