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PRESLEY v. NEWPORT HOSPITAL

No. 74-188-Appeal.

365 A.2d 748 (1976)

Eleanor D. PRESLEY et al. v. NEWPORT HOSPITAL et al.

Supreme Court of Rhode Island.

November 8, 1978.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Aisenberg & Dworkin, Alan T. Dworkin, Thomas H. Quinn, Jr., Providence, for plaintiffs.

Hanson, Curran, Bowen & Parks, Kirk Hanson, David P. Whitman, Providence, for Newport Hospital.

Hinckley, Allen, Salisbury & Parsons, Robert W. Lovegreen, Providence, for Frank J. Logler and Aquidneck Medical Associates, Inc.

OPINION

PAOLINO, Justice.

This is an appeal from a summary judgment entered in the Superior Court, in the defendants' favor.

The facts, for present purposes, are not in dispute. On December 22, 1969, plaintiff Eleanor D. Presley, being pregnant, was admitted to the Newport Hospital for the purpose of inducing labor. The complaint alleges that defendant, Frank J. Logler, M.D., negligently prescribed drugs to induce labor and that he thereafter failed...

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