3619 The fact that plaintiff woke up from a back operation with total blindness in one eye and visual impairment in the other did not satisfy the requirements of res ipsa loquitur, or the common knowledge exception, to result in a presumption that the surgeons were negligent, in the absence of expert testimony to rebut expert testimony offered by defendants that plaintiff's injury sometimes occurs without negligence,CitationCURTIS v SANTA CLARA MED CTR (Post Surgery Blindness) 110 CA4 796 [See: Flowers v Torrance Mem 8 C4 992, T/AT 1/95; Barton v Owen 71 CA3 484; Folk v Kilk 53 CA3 176]
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