Tort/Negligence – Defamation – Medical Malpractice – Surgeon's Duty to Read Scan
The defendant-supervising surgeon told others that the plaintiff-surgical fellow had started a patient’s unnecessary heart surgery because plaintiff had “misread” an echocardiogram. Since plaintiff never read the echocardiogram, and since the issue of whether she had a duty to read the scan is hotly contested, there is a genuine issue of material fact as to ...
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