Bitz v. Bitz

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• holding that bystanders to medical malpractice may not recover for emotional distress
• allowing recovery by one who has been constantly at patient’s bedside could lead hos- pitals to curtail visitation hours
• looking beyond foreseeability, this court imposed limitations on the right of a bystander to recover for emotional distress that allegedly resulted from medical malpractice of doctors in their treatment of the plaintiffs deceased mother
• noting difficulty of establishing causation with respect to whether emo- tional distress derives from witnessing of injury or sim- ply ordinary grief stemming from loss or suffering of loved one
• looking beyond foreseeability, this court imposed limitations on the right of a bystander to recover for emotional distress that allegedly resulted from medical malpractice of doctors in their treatment of the plaintiffs . . . mother
• looking beyond foreseeability, this court imposed limitations on the right of a bystander to recover for emotional distress that allegedly resulted from medical malpractice of doctors in their treatment of the plaintiff's deceased mother

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