Tenet St. Mary's Inc. v. Serratore

How courts have described this case

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• holding that chapter 766 is inapplicable to a suit brought by a patient for injuries sustained when a medical center employee allegedly kicked the patient's foot while attempting to kick the footrest of a chair
• holding that patient’s claim alleging he was injured when, following dialysis treatment, hospital employee attempted to return patient’s chair to an upright position by kicking footrest and, instead, kicked patient was one sounding in ordinary negligence
• a hospital employee kicking a patient constituted a claim of simple negligence against the hospital
• patient injured when hospital employee, attempting to return the patient’s chair to an upright position by kicking the footrest, inadvertently kicked the patient
• “There is clearly no professional standard of care involved in attempting to kick a footrest of the reclining chair to return it to its upright position.”
• considering the allegation of the inadvertent kicking of a patient

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