Court Opinion

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Carley, Justice,
concurring in part and dissenting in part.
I fully concur in Division 2 of the majority opinion and in the affirmance of the judgment in Case No. S97G1956. However, with regard to Division 1, I believe that the Court of Appeals correctly found that the trial court abused its discretion in allowing evidence that the decedent’s mother missed appointments in May and June of 1991. Speaking for the Court of Appeals, Judge Johnson very clearly points out that, “[b]ecause the evidence did not show [that the *381mother] had a ‘fixed and uniform habit’ of negligently caring for her son, evidence of the missed May and June 1991 appointments was not probative of whether she negligently cared for him after the surgery was canceled in August.” Dawson v. Fulton-DeKalb Hosp. Authority, 227 Ga. App. 715, 721 (2) (b) (490 SE2d 142) (1997). Thus, I believe that the judgment of the Court of Appeals should be affirmed in its entirety.
Decided November 23, 1998 —
Reconsideration denied December 18,1998.
Alston & Bird, Robert D. McCallum, Jr., James C. Grant, Candace N. Smith, for appellant (case no. S97G1953).
Carter & Ansley, Ben Kingree III, Mary K. Pickard, John L. McKinley, for appellant (case no. S97G1956).
A. LeRoy Toliver, James A. Shea, Jr., Joseph H. King, Jr., for appellees.
I am authorized to state that Justice Hunstein joins in this opinion.