Puentes v. Tenet Hialeah Healthsystem

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• holding that chapter 766 requirements were implicated when a hospital patient with specific hypoallergenic dietary needs was accidentally given non-hypoallergenic food
• concluding that plaintiff’s claim that hospital’s dietary plan had exacerbated her food poisoning sounded in medical malpractice because the plan was part of plaintiff’s medical treatment
• holding that a patient's negligence claim against a hospital, arising out of a hospital dietician's failure to provide patient with hypoallergenic diet as ordered by physician, was a medical malpractice action requiring compliance with statutory presuit notice requirements
• affirming trial court's dismissal of medical malpractice claims against the hospital due to failure to comply with statutory notice requirements

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