Vannah v. Hart Private Hospital
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort, originally with a single count as follows: “And now comes the plaintiff in the above entitled cause and says that the defendant is a corporation operating a private hospital in that part of Boston called Roxbury and that on the twenty-fourth day of December nineteen hundred and eleven the plaintiff was etherized in the operating room of the defendant and that the charge for operating expenses included the proper guarding of the plaintiff’s person while under the ether…
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Tort, originally with a single count as follows: “And now comes the plaintiff in the above entitled cause and says that the defendant is a corporation operating a private hospital in that part of Boston called Roxbury and that on the twenty-fourth day of December nineteen hundred and eleven the plaintiff was etherized in the operating room of the defendant and that the charge for operating expenses included the proper guarding of the plaintiff’s person while under the ether from any unwarrantable interference and this duty was so negligently performed that the plaintiff suffered great damage…
1Opinion of the CourtLoring, J.
The defendant operates a private hospital for gain. The plaintiff went there to undergo an operation. She testified that "her physician made the arrangements for [Tier] entering into the hospital. . . . That she paid to the hospital $15 a week for attendance and $10 for the use of the operating room.” The operation was performed by a surgeon not connected with the defendant hospital. The plaintiff was etherized by her family physician and he was not connected with the defendant. In addition to the surgeon and the family physician two of the defendant’s nurses were present at the operation.…
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