Arthur v. St. Peters Hospital

How courts have described this case

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• noting that absent a situation where the patient is directed by his own physician or where the patient makes an independent selection as to which physicians he will use, it is the reputation of the hospital itself upon which the patient relies
• noting that absent a situation where the patient is directed by his own physician or where the patient makes an independent selection as to which physicians he will use, it is the reputation of the hospital itself upon which the patient relies
• noting that absent a situation where the patient is directed by his own physician or where the patient makes an independent selection as to which physicians he will use, it is the reputation of the hospital itself upon which the patient relies
• applying the general rule of apparent authority to physicians in hospitals
• “it is the opinion of this court that there are facts here which permit the inference that the hospital held these physicians out as its employees.”
• explaining doctrine of respondeat superior in hospital context

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).