Court Opinion

ID: 9524543
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-07 02:53:58.148826+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T13:10:54.503200
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HOFFMAN, Presiding Judge,
concurring in result.
The statute of limitations begins to run at the earliest of two events: 1) after the relationship of physician and patient is terminated or 2) when the patient learns of the malpractice or learns information which would lead to discovery of the malpractice through diligence.
This is the rule as espoused in Guy v. Schuldt et al. (1956), 236 Ind. 101, 138 N.E.2d 891, and Toth v. Lenk (1975), 164 Ind.App. 618, 330 N.E.2d 336, and the abortive attempt to modify this rule in Van Bronckhorst v. Taube et al. (1976), 168 Ind.App. 132, 341 N.E.2d 791 must be rejected.
The evidence presented could support the fact that the physician-patient relationship did not terminate until September 29,1976, and the patient did not, using diligence, learn of the malpractice prior to that time.