Legal Opinion
Boca Raton Community Hospital, Inc. v. Tenet Health Care Corp.
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided September 4, 2009No. 07-14352PublishedCited by 56 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CARNES, Circuit Judge:
More than a hundred years ago the mother of modern nursing, Florence Nightingale, observed: “It may be a strange principle to enunciate as the very first requirement in a Hospital that it should do the sick no harm. It is quite necessary, nevertheless, to lay down such a principle ....1, 1 When Nightingale wrote those words hospitals were not the sanitary sanctuaries they have become, and the harm she meant to shield her patients from was new or worsening illness. Since then the health care situation has become more complicated. Some hospitals are part of profit-driven,…
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