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Hospital Had No Duty to Future Patients of Formerly Employed Physician Practicing at Unrelated Hospital, Massachusetts Court Holds
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A hospital owed no duty of care to future patients of a physician who had left its employ and resumed practicing medicine with another employer, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court has ruled. Robert Roe, et al. v. Children’s Hospital Medical Center, SJC-11533 (Mass. Oct. 1, 2014).
From 1966 until 1985, Melvin Levine, a…