Rodriguez-Erdman v. Ravenswood Hospital Medical Center

PRESIDING JUSTICE SULLIVAN

delivered the opinion of the court:

Plaintiff, Frank Rodriguez-Erdman, M.D., appeals from the dismissal of his complaint against Ravenswood Hospital Medical Center, Ravenswood Health Care Corporation, Thomas E. McGough, David M. Murdoch, Henry J. Kutsch, Steven Czarnecki, M.D., Robert Griffin, M.D., and James Gallai, M.D. (defendants), which he filed following the termination of his privileges on the medical staff of the defendant hospital.

The four-count complaint, filed on September 6, 1985, sought compensatory and punitive damages on theories of retaliatory…