Legal Opinion
Jones v. Memorial Hospital System
Texas Court of Appeals, 1st District (Houston)
Decided February 25, 1988No. 01-87-00442-CVPublishedCited by 44 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
EVANS, Chief Justice.
The plaintiff, Pamela Sue Jones, appeals from a take-nothing summary judgment in favor of the defendants, Memorial Hospital System, R. William Warren, and Gene Ross.
The plaintiff, a registered nurse, was employed by Memorial Hospital System, and assigned to its intensive care unit. While so employed, she wrote an article, which was published in a local newspaper, expressing her concern about the conflict between the duty of hospital personnel to prolong life, and the right of terminally ill patients to die with dignity. When her employment was terminated after the…
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