Grewe v. Mount Clemens General Hospital

How courts have described this case

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• patient's expectations and that no notice was given of the hospital-physician relationship were significant factors in rejecting immunity
• plaintiff's complaint alleged negligence on the part of the hospital's \agents\ and the pleadings were broad enough to encompass an allegation of derivative liability of the hospital
• “An agency is ostensible when the principal intentionally or by want of ordinary care, causes a third person to believe another to be his agent who is not really employed by him.”
• “the critical question is whether the plaintiff, at the time of his admission … was looking to the hospital for treatment of his physical ailments or merely viewed the hospital as the situs where his physician would treat him …”
• “[I]f the individual looked to the hospital to provide him with medical treatment and there has been a representation by the hospital that medical treatment would be afforded by physicians working therein, an agency by estoppel can be found.”
• “the critical question is whether the plaintiff, at the time of his admission … was looking to the hospital for treatment of his physical ailments or merely viewed the hospital as the situs where his physician would treat him …”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).