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A 40-year-old woman wakes up at 3 a.m. with chest pain and shortness of breath and believes she may be having a heart attack. Because she lives less than a block away from an HMO-owned hospital, she walks to the hospital’s emergency department despite the fact that she is a subscriber to a different managed care health plan. A nurse at the hospital explains that they do not treat patients from her health plan but calls one of the hospital’s doctors on the phone. The doctor speaks with the patient and asks her about her symptoms and medical history. The doctor tells the patient to go home and call a physician from her health plan when the office opens in the morning. 

 

Do you think the doctor created a verbal or implied contract with the patient?

 

Did the doctor fulfill his legal responsibilities when dealing with the patient?

 

Could the state medical board suspend the doctor’s license for his behavior?

 

If the patient died later that day, could his family sue the doctor or hospital?

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