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Re: Meaning of Unattached From: DoctorJoe@aol.com Thu Sep 27 09:50:38 2007 Messages sorted by: [ date ][ thread ][ subject ][ author ] Next message: Larry Glazerman: "Re: Thin Prep versus PapSure" Previous message: westsidebirthservice@juno.com: "Re: Thin Prep versus PapSure" Maybe in reply to: Efrain Ramirez: "Meaning of Unattached" In a message dated 9/26/07 5:20:27 PM, eramirezt@coqui.net writes: > “Unattached” patient at ER seen by MD on call – no further contact – > months later same patient goes to ER – asks for MD she saw at ER months > ago..  now not on call..  he is contacted by phone – says he is not on > call – and she is not his patient (no visits to his office) – who is > responsible? > It would be a question for the jury (or other tryer of fact) to decide if the patient "reasonably believed" that a specific doctor-patient relationship had been established, rather than a hit-and-run on-call type relationship. It would boil down to a he-said-she-said kind of argument, buttressed by any track marks on the (probably scanty) ER record. Joe P. Next message: Larry Glazerman: "Re: Thin Prep versus PapSure" Previous message: westsidebirthservice@juno.com: "Re: Thin Prep versus PapSure" Maybe in reply to: Efrain Ramirez: "Meaning of Unattached"

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