Tate v. McCall Hospital

The general rule as to the duty owed by a private hospital to a patient is well stated in Emory University v. Shadburn, 47 Ga. App. 643 (171 S. E. 192), and Stansfield v. Gardner, 56 Ga. App. 634 (193 S. E. 375), as follows: "A private hospital in which patients are placed for treatment by their physicians, and which undertakes to care for the patients and supervise and look after them, is under the duty to exercise such reasonable care in looking after and protecting a patient as the patient’s condition, which is known to the hospital through its agents and servants charged with the duty of…