· 2/28/1996
Trinity Medical Center, Inc. v. Holum
Citations
- 544 N.W.2d 148
- 1996 N.D. LEXIS 54
- 1996 WL 83306
How courts have described this case
Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.
- indicating that the scope of a peer-review protection act should not be limited “by the name employed to describe the committee and to thereby contradict legislative intent”
- “[A]lthough nearly every state has some form of statutory privilege for medical peer review, it appears that no two statutes, or courts’ interpretations of them, are alike.”
- “physicians . . . would not feel free to openly discuss the performance of other doctors practicing in the hospital, without assurance that their discussions in committee would be confidential and privileged”
- “Most of the courts which have directly addressed this issue [medical peer review privilege] have either required, or strongly encouraged, in camera review of the material for which the privilege is claimed.”
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Judges: Levine, Vande Walle, Neumann, Sandstrom, Meschke
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