WEIMER v. HETRICK

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David R. Thompson (Roy B. Cowdrey, Jr. and Franch, Earnest & Cowdrey, P.A., on the brief), Easton, for appellant.

John F. King, Jeanette A. Plante, and Anderson, Coe & King, Baltimore, on brief, for amicus curiae the Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of State of Maryland.

E. Fremont Magee, H. Mark Stichel and Piper & Marbury, Baltimore, on brief, for amicus curiae Chesapeake Physicians, P.A.

Donald L. DeVries, Jr., J. Mitchell Lambros and Semmes, Bowen & Semmes, Baltimore, on brief for amicus curiae Franklin Square Hospital, Greater Baltimore Medical Center, Inc., South Baltimore General Hospital, Dorchester General Hospital, University of Maryland Medical Systems Corp., Maryland Society for Healthcare Risk Management and R.I.S.C., Inc.

Henry E. Dugan, Jr. (Gilbert H. Robinette and Robinette, Dugan, Seiden & Jakubowski, P.A., on the brief), Baltimore, for appellees.

Argued before COLE, RODOWSKY, COUCH and McAULIFFE, JJ., MARVIN H. SMITH and CHARLES E. ORTH, Jr., Associate Judges of the Court of Appeals of Maryland (retired), Specially Assigned and W. ALBERT MENCHINE, Associate Judge of the Court of Special Appeals (retired), Specially Assigned.