Lo v. Provena Covenant Medical Center

Plaintiff, Adolf Lo, is a physician and a member of the medical staff of defendant, Provena Covenant Medical Center, a licensed hospital. Defendant summarily suspended plaintiffs clinical privilege to perform open-heart surgery, allegedly because an independent peer review had identified problems in his open-heart surgeries and he had expressed an intention to perform more such surgeries without the precautionary measure on which defendant had insisted: direct supervision by another cardiac surgeon. Plaintiff sued defendant for breach of contract, and the trial court entered an order…