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WILLIAMS v. ST. JOSEPH HOSPITAL

No. 79-1204.

629 F.2d 448 (1980)

Carol Elaine WILLIAMS, by her mother and next friend, Marcia Williams et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. ST. JOSEPH HOSPITAL et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided July 15, 1980.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edward T. Butt, Jr., D. Kendall Griffith, Karla Wright, Harvey B. Bass, Terrence J. Madden, Robert Marc Chemers, Joseph B. Lederleitner, Norman J. Lerum, II, Harold L. Jacobson, Chicago, Ill., Thomas Feehan, Joliet, Ill., for defendants-appellees.

Martha A. Mills, Chicago, Ill., for plaintiffs-appellants.

Before FAIRCHILD, Chief Judge, CUDAHY, Circuit Judge, and DUMBAULD, Senior District Judge.

DUMBAULD, Senior District Judge.

One of the paradoxical aspects of this interesting case is that patients whose low opinion of the professional skill of their physicians impelled them to institute lawsuits for malpractice1 now seek in the case at bar inter alia to require those physicians to continue to provide medical care for the plaintiff patients.

It might be against public policy, as involving something akin to a conflict...

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