A. Except as otherwise provided in this section, all actions for medical injury shall be commenced within two (2) years after the cause of action accrues.
B. The date of the accrual of the cause of action shall be the date of the wrongful act complained of, and no other time. However, where the action is based upon the discovery of a foreign object in the body of the injured person which is not discovered and could not reasonably have been discovered within such two-year period, the action may be commenced within one (1) year from the date of discovery or the date the foreign object reasonably should have been discovered, whichever is earlier.
Wright v. Sharma, 956 S.W.2d 191, 195 (Ark. 1997). (The deceased patient's pericarditis was successfully treated with anti-inflammatories but the decedent subsequently required a pericardiectomy. The court found that the patient was not subject to a course of continuing treatment, such that the plaintiff's malpractice action was time-barred. The only negligent act alleged was unnecessary surgery; any negligence was consummated upon performance of surgery and did not give rise to circumstances that would invoke the continuous treatment rule.)
Jones v. Central Ark. Radiation Therapy Inst., 270 Ark. 988, 607 S.W.2d 334 (Ark. 1980). (In an action for radiation injuries, the statute was held to be tolled by the physician's dilatory tactics, amounting to fraudulent concealment. The physician falsely represented to the plaintiff that he was not convinced the radiation treatment was responsible for the plaintiff's injury.)