Jennison v. Providence St. Vincent Medical Center

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• finding that it was reasonable for the patient to assume that the radiologist was a hospital employee where nowhere on the consent form did it indicate that the radiologists were independent contractors
• stating that, “if the hospital undertakes to provide certain services to the public and there is no evidence indicating that the patient was aware of the physician’s nonemployee status, then the ‘holding out’ requirement of the doctrine is satisfied”
• finding it was reasonable for the patient to assume -that the radiologist was a hospital employee where nowhere on the consent form did it indicate that radiologists were independent contractors

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).