Pratt v. Fiske

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• stating that whether or not a physician-patient relationship exists does not depend upon whether actual treatment was undertaken; it exists when a patient could reasonably have regarded the physician as acting in a professional capacity
• finding a voluntary act when the defendant, knowing he might, at any time, be subject to epileptic attacks and seizures, drove an automobile with nobody accompanying him, suffered a seizure, and caused a fatal collision
• presence of a police guard at a hospital room where defendant was being treated did not destroy confidentiality
• prosecution for criminal negligence in operating automobile
• information used as a pleading must be verified
• information used as a pleading must be verified

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).