Peacock v. Samaritan Health Service

OPINION

BROOKS, Judge.

This is an appeal from a summary judgment entered in favor of the defendant hospital in a medical malpractice action. We reverse.

FACTS

In March of 1984, plaintiff-appellant Anthony Peacock was involved in an automobile accident and incurred minor injuries. When he failed to report to work a few days later, his fellow employees, Richard Schrier and Fred Stevens, became concerned and searched him out. When they arrived at Peacock’s apartment, he answered the door in the nude and made bizarre remarks including the statement that he was “still alive.” The room was dark and…