Jones v. Shek

This is an action for damages resulting from the alleged professional negligence of the defendant, a licensed medical doctor. Plaintiffs complaint alleges that, while on duty as a nurse’s aide at a general hospital, plaintiff discovered a patient, one Enriquez, in the act of assaulting another patient; that plaintiff attempted to aid the victimized patient and was then injured when Enriquez struck her. Plaintiff further alleges that Enriquez was the defendant’s patient, and that defendant knew or should have known of the patient’s violent traits or propensities, and that defendant was…