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HIGGINS v. DETROIT OSTEO HOSP. CORP.

Docket No. 82569.

154 Mich. App. 752 (1986)

398 N.W.2d 520

HIGGINS v. DETROIT OSTEOPATHIC HOSPITAL CORPORATION

Michigan Court of Appeals.

Decided September 16, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charfoos, Christensen & Archer, P.C. (by Dennis W. Archer and J. Douglas Peters), for plaintiff.

Kitch, Saurbier, Drutchas, Wagner & Kenney, P.C. (by Charles W. Fisher and Susan Healy Zitterman), for Rich A. Poston, D.O.

Dice, Sweeney, Sullivan, Feikens, Hurbis & Foster, P.C. (by Dennis J. Mendis and Dale Herbert), for Detroit Osteopathic Hospital and Raymond W. Dieter, D.O.

MacArthur, Cheatham, Acker & Smith, P.C. (by Charles C. Cheatham and James G. Gross), for David L. Wolf, D.O. and Harvey C. Orth, D.O.

Before: CYNAR, P.J., and WAHLS and E.E. BORRADAILE, JJ.

PER CURIAM.

This appeal is the result of directed verdicts for defendants in this medical malpractice suit. Two issues are raised. One deals with the court's determination of whether a witness is competent to testify as an expert. The other concerns the protections of the "Good Samaritan" act when an outside doctor is contacted by a hospital on behalf of a patient.

The facts center around the birth and first few hours of Jamie Lynn Higgins' life, and can be...

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