Court Opinion

ID: 9705150
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 00:58:08.689608+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:22:08.348732
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T. M. Burns, P. J.
(dissenting). In her complaint, plaintiff alleged that she fell and suffered a laceration of the scalp. She went to the hospital and was *635treated. When hospital employees sutured the laceration, they failed to remove gauze or packing material from the wound. Plaintiff returned to the hospital several times between July 17, 1971, and October 12, 1972, complaining of pain in the area of the laceration. Hospital personnel failed to discover the embedded material. Sewing gauze into a wound and subsequently failing to discover that error is not a governmental function. White v Detroit, 74 Mich App 545, 548; 254 NW2d 572 (1977) (T. M. Burns, J., dissenting).
I would reverse the trial court order granting summary judgment for the defendants.