McDermott v. Torre’s Empirical Analysis

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2 state decisions

Most-quoted passages

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1. “In the somewhat unique circumstances presented in the case at bar, where the pathologist should have reasonably expected that his work would be relied upon by other practitioners in determining the mode of treatment, we feel it appropriate to impute to that pathologist or diagnostician constructive participation in that treatment so long as it continued. In this way, the practitioner guilty of the initial malpractice is subject to the same limitations as those who continued the malpractice as a reasonably forseeable result of the initial wrong.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Walters v. Rinker