St. John v. Pope

How courts have described this case

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

• physician cannot be liable for malpractice where there is no physician-patient relationship
• even though doctor listened to another doctor’s description of a patient’s symptoms and came to a conclusion about the basis of the patient’s condition, he did so for the purpose of evaluating whether he should take the case, not as a diagnosis for a course of treatment

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).