Oja v. Kin

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• distinguishing between advising on general patient care and undertaking to examine, diagnose, or treat a patient
• analysis of duty based on doctor's contractual relationship with the hospital and intention that patient be third-party beneficiary
• analysis of duty based on doctor’s contractual relationship with the hospital and intention that patient be third-party beneficiary
• “[C]onsent to a physician-patient relationship may be found only where a physician has done something, such as participate in the patient’s diagnosis and treatment, that supports the implication that she consented to a physician-patient relationship.”
• “[M]erely listening to another physician’s description of a patient’s problem and offering a professional opinion regarding the proper course of treatment is not enough. Under those circumstances, a doctor ... is simply offering informal assistance to a colleague.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).