Bovara v. St. Francis Hospital

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• stating that a doctor/patient \relationship can be found to exist where a physician contacts another physician on behalf of the patient or where a physician accepts a referral of a patient\ (citation omitted)
• finding the trial court erred in granting summary judgment because a physician-patient relationship may have existed by the physician providing services to the plaintiffs, even though they never interacted
• physicians who provided service to hospital of determining whether patients were “candidates” for angioplasty procedure had physician-patient relationship with patient even though they never examined patient
• duty owed by two cardiac interventionists who were assigned by hospital to review test results and make decision regarding surgical intervention

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).