Sterling v. Johns Hopkins Hospital

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that “[wjhere ... the treating physician exercises his or her own independent judgment in determining whether to accept or reject [a consultant’s] advice, ... the consultative physician should not be regarded as a joint provider of medical services”
• “In the final analysis, we take it as well-settled that a physician-patient relationship may arise by implication where the doctor takes affirmative action to participate in the care and treatment of a patient.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).