Legal Opinion
Hutchinson v. Smith Laboratories, Inc.
Supreme Court of Iowa
Decided August 20, 1986No. 86-325PublishedCited by 20 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WOLLE, Justice.
This interlocutory appeal concerns the discoverability of documents generated by a hospital peer review committee. Defendant Mercy Hospital Medical Center (the hospital) challenges the district court’s determination that peer review written records and reports concerning a surgical procedure performed at the hospital were not' privileged and therefore were discoverable. We affirm.
Plaintiff William E. Hutchinson, Sr. entered the hospital for treatment of lower back pain. There, on June 11, 1984, his treatment by the defendant doctor, Robert C. Jones, included injection of a drug…
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