Vranos v. Franklin Medical Center

In this defamation action brought by a physician, the defendant hospital and hospital administrators appeal from an interlocutory order of a Superior Court judge ordering production of documents and responses to interrogatories the defendants claim are protected from discovery under the “medical peer review privilege.” See G. L. c. Ill, §§ 204 (a)-(b) and 205 (b).4 The information ordered to be produced included credentialing communications between the defendants and third parties and materials related to the physician’s summary suspension from the hospital after an incident of alleged verbal…