Minster v. Pohl

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• finding that although an emergency room doctor, upon request of a nurse, viewed an x-ray in order to verify whether the nurse had properly replaced the patient’s feeding tube, there was no evidence that he did so as the patient’s doctor
• finding that although an emergency room doctor, upon request of a nurse, viewed an x-ray in order to verify whether the nurse had properly replaced the patient’s feeding tube, there was no evidence that he did so as the patient’s doctor
• “OCGA § 9-11-9.1 applies to a hospital when it is sued under a theory of respondeat superior for the professional negligence of its employee nurse.”
• although, on request of a nurse, the emergency-room physician on duty viewed an X ray to verify that the nurse had properly replaced a feeding tube, the physician was not acting as the patient’s physician
• no doctor-patient relationship existed where on-call doctor merely reviewed patient’s x-ray at nurse’s request
• although, on request of a nurse, the emergency-room physician on duty viewed an X ray to verify that the nurse had properly replaced a feeding tube, the physician was not acting as the patient's physician

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