Butkiewicz v. Loyola University Medical Center

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• holding that Gilbert was not limited to conduct in an emergency room where the independent-contractor radiologist failed to diagnose the decedent’s lung cancer after his admission to the hospital for chest pains
• holding that Gilbert was not limited to conduct in an emergency room where the independent-contractor radiologist failed to diagnose the decedent’s lung cancer after his admission to the hospital for chest pains
• holding that Gilbert was not limited to conduct in an emergency room where the independent-contractor radiologist failed to diagnose the decedent’s lung cancer after his admission to the hospital for chest pains
• stating that, under Gilbert v. Sycamore Municipal Hospital, 156 Ill. 2d 511, (1993), the first relevant inquiry is whether the patient knew that the physician was not employed by the hospital
• finding that a hospital may be liable for the acts of a physician independent contractor unless patient knows or should know that physician is independent contractor regardless of whether physician is an ER doctor or another type
• finding no evidence of reliance where the patient merely went to the defendant hospital “because that is where his doctor had staff privileges and told him to go”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).