Wieters v. Roper Hospital, Inc.

OPINION

Dr. Thomas R. Wieters, the plaintiff-appellant, is a surgeon in Charleston, South Carolina, and was until recently a member of the staff at Roper Hospital, Inc., a private non-profit institution. This case stems from Roper Hospital, Inc.’s suspension of Dr. Wieters’s privileges in response to what the hospital terms his “disruptive behavior.” When Dr. Wieters sued Roper Hospital, Inc. and related defendants (collectively, “Roper” or “the hospital”) over his suspension, Roper raised as a defense the immunity granted to hospitals under the Health Care Quality Improvement Act (HCQIA), 42…