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HUTCHINSON v. SMITH LABORATORIES, INC.

No. 86-325.

392 N.W.2d 139 (1986)

William E. HUTCHINSON and Sandra S. Hutchinson, Plaintiffs, v. SMITH LABORATORIES, INC., Appellee, Robert C. Jones, M.D., Defendant, and Mercy Hospital Medical Center, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

August 20, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gregory R. Brown of Duncan, Jones, Riley & Finley, Des Moines, for appellant.

L.W. Rosebrook and William J. Noth of Ahlers, Cooney, Dorweiler, Haynie, Smith & Allbee, Des Moines, for appellee.

Considered by REYNOLDSON, C.J., and McGIVERIN, LARSON, SCHULTZ and WOLLE, JJ.

WOLLE, Justice.

This interlocutory appeal concerns the discoverability of documents generated by a hospital peer review committee. Defendant Mercy Hospital Medical Center (the hospital) challenges the district court's determination that peer review written records and reports concerning a surgical procedure performed at the hospital were not privileged and therefore were discoverable. We affirm.

Plaintiff William E. Hutchinson, Sr. entered the hospital for...

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