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3832 REVIEW DENIED In an action for wrongful death, a decedent's child who is so severely retarded that s/he does not realize that his/her parent is dead is not thereby prevented from proving damages resulting from loss of decedent's companionship; discovery of malpractice by a surgeon believed to have resulted in a decedent's death is sufficient to start the statute of limitations action running on an action against another surgeon who performed a different operation on the decedent on the same day.CitationKNOWLES v SUPERIOR COURT (Retarded Survivor) 118 CA4 1290 [See: CCP 340.5; Rufo v Simpson 86 CA4 573, T/AT 3/01; Jolly v Eli Lilly 44 C3 1103; Fox v Ethicon (RevGrtd) 112 CA4 1572, T/AT 12/03; BristolMyers v Superior Court 32 CA4 959, T/AT 3/95]
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