Don Houston, M.D., Inc. v. Intermountain Health Care, Inc.

GREENWOOD, Judge:

Appellant Dr. Don Houston challenges the trial court’s summary judgment in favor of appellees. The trial court ruled that appel-lees are entitled to judgment, as a matter of law, because (1) they are immune, both statutorily and by hospital bylaws, from liability because they acted in good faith, and (2) they substantially complied with hospital bylaws in suspending Dr. Houston’s surgical privileges. We affirm.

FACTS 1

Dr. Houston was a surgeon with full surgical privileges at Dixie Medical Center (the Hospital), in St, George, Utah, commencing in 1978. In March 1982, a peer…