Johnson v. Misericordia Community Hospital

How courts have described this case

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• holding that “since the procedures ordinarily employed by hospitals in evaluating applications for staff privileges are not within the realm of the ordinary experience of mankind, we agree ... that expert testimony was required to prove the same”
• noting that harm to patients is foreseeable if hospitals fail to properly evaluate and monitor staff physicians
• noting that harm to patients is foreseeable if hospitals fail to properly evaluate and monitor staff physicians
• providing for proportionate setoff of settlements without distinguishing between joint and successive tortfeasors
• hospital had a duty to hire competent doctors which it could breach by allowing an unqualified surgeon to perform negligently an operation
• hospital had a duty to hire competent doctors which it could breach by allowing an unqualified surgeon to perform negligently an operation

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).