Legal Opinion
Knatt v. Hospital Service District No. 1
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided April 12, 2010No. 09-30891Published
1Opinion of the Court
PER CURIAM: *
About fifteen years ago, Dr. Theodore Knatt began providing orthopedic surgery services to patients of Lane Memorial Hospital in Zachary, Louisiana. He struck out on his own in 2001 to develop a physician-owned surgical facility, but continued seeing patients at Lane. In 2002, Lane summarily suspended Knatt from medical staff privileges for twenty-one days. These privileges were later reinstated, and the summary suspension was removed from his record.
In 2003, Knatt filed the first of two lawsuits against Lane and several of its agents and employees in state court, asserting…
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