Pratt v. Lifemark Corp.

SCHOTT, Judge.

This is a tort action by a physician against a hospital. He alleges that he injured his back while assisting a team of surgical personnel in the transfer of a patient from the operating room table to a portable recovery room table. A jury returned a verdict in plaintiff’s favor on the basis of interrogatories the court submitted. In this appeal by the hospital the principal issue is whether it owed any duty to protect plaintiff from the risk he encountered.

Plaintiff is a surgeon. On the day of the accident he performed an operation at St. *489Claude General Hospital for the removal…