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· 9/29/1967

William J. Emmett, Administrator of the Estate of Joseph N. Emmett v. Eastern Dispensary and Casualty Hospital

Citations

  • 396 F.2d 931
  • 130 U.S. App. D.C. 50
  • 1967 U.S. App. LEXIS 5006

How courts have described this case

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  • \by the exercise of due diligence could have known that he may have had a cause of action\
  • only \fraudulent concealment of information the moving party needs in order to determine whether there is a litigable dispute \ will toll the statute (emphasis added)
  • “We find in the fiducial qualities of that relationship [between physician and patient] the physician’s duty to reveal to the patient that which in his best interests it is important that he should know.” 396 F.2d at 935.

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Judges: III, Bastian, Wright, Robinson

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