White v. Prospect Heights Hospital

The appellant was a paying patient in respondent hospital, which had been incorporated for charitable purposes. The surgery for which he had been admitted was successfully performed by his private surgeon. The jury could have found, upon the evidence adduced, that following the operation it became necessary to eatheterize appellant; that he was eatheterized several times, the first time by an orderly in the employ of the hospital who was not a medical graduate; that the catheterization by the orderly was in accordance with general custom at this hospital; and that appellant received severe…