Williamson v. Grant County Public Hospital District No. 1

Plaintiff, an osteopathic physician1 licensed by the state (RCW chapter 18.57), commenced this action2 against (a) Grant County Public Hospital District No. 1, a municipal corporation organized and chartered pursuant to RCW chapter 70.44, the owner of the Samaritan Hospital at Moses Lake and (b) the directors and members of the medical staff of the hospital, who are licensed as physicians and surgeons pursuant to RCW chapter 18.71.

Plaintiff’s second amended statement of claim, as pleaded, was triggered by the fact that he was notified by defendants that they would not entertain his…