313 Pa. Super. 279 - Dohan v. Stahlnecker’s Empirical Analysis

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2 state decisions

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1. “Now, even if you find that the attending physician remained in charge of the decedent David Dohan, Riddle Hospital, nevertheless, remained responsible for those services or acts which according to good medical practice it should have performed. Now, once a person is brought to a hospital emergency room and that person is accepted for care and treatment, the hospital must not act unreasonably in allowing a person to be removed from the premises. The law requires that such patient be kept at the hospital and not transferred or removed if it is foreseeable that his condition will be aggravated or his danger increased by such removal or transfer. Now, again I point out the contentions here, Riddle says that doesn’t apply here because he never really became a patient in our emergency room. He just happened to be there and we had some services and we permitted Dr. Stahlnecker to use them.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Riddle Memorial Hospital v. Dohan