Mead v. Legacy Health System

It is undisputed that defendant agreed, as a condition of obtaining hospital privileges, to serve as an on-call physician and respond to calls for advice and assistance from emergency room physicians. It is also undisputed that on July 1, 2002, in that capacity, defendant received a call from an emergency room physician seeking, in defendant’s own words, his advice “to determine at this time whether the patient needs to be seen by a neurosurgeon.”1 Defendant took the call; obtained the results of plaintiff’s physical, neurological, and MRI examinations;2 determined the nature of plaintiff’s…