Blaz v. Michael Reese Hospital Foundation

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

BUCKLO, District Judge.

Joel Blaz, now a citizen of Florida, was one among about 5,000 patients at Michael Reese Hospital and Medical Center (“Michael Reese”) in Chicago, Illinois, who were treated with X-ray therapy for some benign conditions of the head and neck from 1930 to 1960. Mr. Blaz received this treatment while a child in 1947 — 18. He has suffered various tumors that he now attributes to this treatment. In 1996, he sued Michael Reese and its successor, Galen Hospital, which acquired Michael Reese in 1991, and Dr. Arthur Schneider, the physician who headed…