McDaniel v. General Care Corp.

I respectfully dissent from the result reached in the majority opinion.

The minority report which the trial judge refused to admit in evidence is set out in full in the majority’s opinion and I do not believe the separate, informal statements by the doctor and nurse are admissible under the statute. The separate statements of the two board members are not in the statutory form prescribed and amount to comments on the evidence presented before the board and identify the board members by name and profession, all proscribed by statute. Baldwin v. Knight, 569 S.W.2d 450 (Tenn.1978), states:

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