United States v. American Locomotive Co.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that it was a question of fact for the jury whether an on-call cardiologist who had discussed a patient’s symptoms and test results with an emergency room physician entered into a physicián-patient relationship with the person seeking treatment
• noting that the doctor’s consent to enter into the physician-patient relationship may take the form of a physician’s agreement with the institution to handle patients
• stating, “The basic underlying concept in these cases is that a physician-patient relationship, and thus a duty of care, may arise from whatever circumstances evince the physician’s consent to act for the patient’s medical benefit.”
• collecting examples of “courts [that] recognize ... physicians who practice in the institutional environment may be found to have voluntarily assumed a duty of supervisory care pursuant to their contractual and employment arrangements with the hospital”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).