DOCTORS HOSPITAL OF AUGUSTA, LLC Et Al. v. ALICEA

BARNES, Presiding Judge.

This appeal raises questions pertaining to the immunity of health care providers and facilities under the Georgia Advance Directive for Health Care Act, OCGA § 31-32-1 et seq. (“Advance Directive Act”) and to the law of informed and basic consent. The plaintiff, as administrator of the estate of her grandmother, sued Doctors Hospital of Augusta, LLC and Dr. Phillip William Catalano (collectively, the “Defendants”), alleging that they intubated the plaintiff’s grandmother and placed her on mechanical ventilation, which prolonged her life when she was in a terminal…