Devitre v. Orthopedic Center of Saint Louis, LLC

PATRICIA BRECKENRIDGE, Judge.

Sohrab Devitre appeals the judgment of the St. Louis County circuit court dismissing his lawsuit with prejudice for failure to file a health care affidavit pursuant to section 538.225.1 Mr. Devitre argues that the trial court abused its discretion in dismissing the lawsuit because he was not a patient of Mitchell B. Rotman, M.D., or of The Orthopedic Center of St. Louis, LLC, and the independent medical examination conducted by Dr. Rotman did not create a physician-patient relationship that would trigger the requirement in section 538.225 to file a health care…