Greisman v. Newcomb Hospital

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• recognizing a private cause of action to review exclusions from medical privileges because of the effect on physician's ability to practice and public interest in health care
• recognizing a private cause of action to review exclusions from medical privileges because of the effect on physician’s ability to practice and public interest in health care
• hospital’s discretionary power to grant admitting privileges to doctors must be exercised in the public interest
• hospital's discretionary power to grant admitting privileges to doctors must be exercised in the public interest
• “[hospital officials] must recognize that their powers, particularly those relating to the selection of staff members, are powers in trust which are always to be dealt with as such”
• a private hospital that received a large portion of its funds from public sources and operated as a virtual monopoly in its geographical area was subject to judicial review when ruling on applications for staff memberships

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).