Legal Opinion
Carol Elaine Williams, by Her Mother and Next Friend, Marcia Williams v. St. Joseph Hospital
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided July 15, 1980No. 79-1204PublishedCited by 94 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DUMBAULD, Senior District Judge.
One of the paradoxical aspects of this interesting case is that patients whose low opinion of the professional skill of their physicians impelled them to institute lawsuits for malpractice1 now seek in the case at bar inter alia to require those physicians to continue to provide medical care for the plaintiff patients.
It might be against public policy, as involving something akin to a conflict of interests, to compel a physician to continue to serve a patient who has filed a malpractice suit against him. However, plaintiffs-appellants here allege (and for the…
2Cases cited42 opinions
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3Cited by94 opinions
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- Perkins v. SilversteinCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1991
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