Roosevelt Hospital v. Loewy

Opinion Per Curiam.

As the charge for medical and surgical services which the hospital seeks to collect was shown to be payable if collected to the staff physician who rendered same it may not be regarded as a charge of the hospital for which it has a lien. The evidence also showed that on becoming a member of the medical staff of the hospital the physician agreed to make no charge to the hospital and to render his services gratis excepting to his own patients brought by him to the hospital with whom he dealt directly in respect of his own compensation. An ambulance patient who is taken to the…