By Sarah McBride

We are starting a new blog series which focuses on interesting cases that we frequently read about.  Lawyers always love an interesting fact pattern and these cases are chock full of details that make the usual work day just a little bit sunnier.  I’ve titled the article series “Like You Do…” in honor of my favorite comedian who occasionally uses the phrase when discussing something quite odd. 

Example: I knew a lawyer who refused to go to court whenever there was a full moon.  Like you do.

(True story, by the way.)

This week’s “Like You Do…” case comes from across the border – the Tennessee/Alabama border, that is – in the Circuit Court for Tuscaloosa County, Alabama.   It seems that the Plaintiff was none too happy that the Defendant hospital’s surgery team allegedly knocked her teeth out while removing an anesthesia device after performing Plaintiff’s knee surgery. 

Plaintiff further claims that she swallowed the knocked-out teeth.  No worries, however. The hospital allegedly advised Plaintiff that the teeth would eventually “pass” through her intestinal tract.  Once the teeth were - ahem - retrieved, Plaintiff’s dentist could then sterilize and reimplant them.  Like you do....

Two words: ouch and yuck.