MacKay v. St. Charles Medical Center

Plaintiffs in these consolidated actions were patients or are the personal representatives or spouses of patients who received radiation treatment for cancer at defendant St. Charles Medical Center (hospital). Defendant Comerford is a radiation oncologist who administered radiation treatments at the hospital. Defendants Northwest Medical Physics Center and McGreevey (defendants) provided medical physicist services to the hospital between 1982 and 1986. It was defendants’ responsibility to calibrate and make routine checks of the calibration of the hospital’s radiation treatment machinery.…