Roberts v. Saylor

How courts have described this case

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• noting that liability does not arise from mere insults, indignities, threats, annoyances, petty expressions, or other trivialities
• affirming summary judgment when a doctor approached a plaintiff on a gurney preparing for surgery and told her that he did not like her
• listing extreme and outrageous conduct as one of the four elements of intentional infliction of emotional distress
• no outrage shown where plaintiff's emotional distress was not so severe that plaintiff had to seek psychiatric or further medical treatment
• doctor expressed dislike of a patient to that patient prior to patient undergoing surgery
• patient who was told by her former doctor, as she was being prepared for surgery, that he did not like her was not allowed to maintain an outrage claim

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