Opinion ID: 1976643
Heading Depth: 4
Heading Rank: 1

Heading: Osteomyelitis

Text: It is central to the analysis under the discovery rule that an injury must be ascertainable. Groover, 357 Pa.Super. at 428, 516 A.2d at 57. In numerous visits to Dr. Weisband's office after the first procedure of which Ms. Corbett complains, treatment of the infection in December 1978, her condition was repeatedly assessed by Dr. Weisband as stable. [9] Further, on March 6, 1980, fifteen months after the first hospitalization, Dr. Weisband wrote a letter to Ms. Corbett's attorney diagnosing her condition as pyoarthritis and osteoarthritis, without mentioning osteomyelitis. Finally, when Ms. Corbett first consulted Dr. Greene, on September 8, 1981, he failed to detect the infection deep in her knee. [10] Therefore, there is ample evidence to support the jury's finding that Ms. Corbett was justified in not having discovered her injury, resulting from Dr. Weisband's failure to treat the osteomyelitis, prior to September 13, 1981.