Opinion ID: 1303215
Heading Depth: 1
Heading Rank: 5

Heading: first cause of action against defendant john d. gillis

Text: That about March 29, 1949, plaintiff was removed to the Good Samaritan Hospital and placed under the care of defendant Gillis for treatment where he remained for about two weeks; that during this time an anaesthetic was administered to him for the purpose of making skin grafts over the incision in the popliteal space of his left leg. He alleges on information and belief that while he was under the anaesthetic, defendant Gillis made the skin grafts and several other incisions and drained therefrom fully five hundred cubic Centimeters of old blood clots and pus matter. He alleges that when he was discharged from the hospital on April 12, 1949, considerable pus matter was still draining from the incisions and that he was not then cured; that to have insured a cure, defendant should have repaired the damaged artery and the severed nerve and should have thoroughly cleansed the leg of all accumulated old blood clots and pus matter and to have taken proper measures to guard against infection and to combat any infection; that plaintiff had no way of knowing whether infection had developed in the bones of the leg but that defendant had the means of obtaining such information; that defendant neglected to take X-ray pictures of the injured leg. Plaintiff further alleges that about September 2, 1949, defendant Gillis informed him that the condition of the left leg was seriously endangering plaintiff's general health; that the left leg would never be of any material use and benefit; that the left leg should be amputated; that plaintiff believed and relied on these representations and became interested in saving his life and lost interest in saving his left leg.