Botvinick v. RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER

TINDER, Circuit Judge.

After Bradley Botvinick completed his residency in anesthesiology at Rush University Medical Center (“Rush”), he obtained employment with Anesthesiology Associates of Dunedin (“AAD”), a Florida doctors’ association. Botvinick lost that job, however, when the hospital where AAD doctors practice denied Botvinick’s application for clinical privileges. Believing that Rush sabotaged his application by feeding the hospital false, petty information about his reputation, Botvinick sued Rush and several of its doctors for tortious interference with his expectation of employment.…