MEDICAL CENTER HOSPITALS v. TERZIS

Record No. 860642.

367 S.E.2d 728 (1988)

MEDICAL CENTER HOSPITALS and the Executive Board of Directors of Medical Center Hospitals v. Julia K. TERZIS, M.D., a/k/a Physician 392.

Supreme Court of Virginia.

As Modified Upon Grant of Rehearing June 10, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gregory M. Luce (Katherine A. Taylor, Mark D. Gustafson, Washington, D.C., John Franklin, III, Norfolk, Fulbright & Jaworski, Washington, D.C., Taylor, Walker & Adams, Norfolk, on briefs), for appellants.

Thomas J. Harlan, Jr. (Michael F. Bergan, Harlan, Knight, Dudley & Pincus, Norfolk, on brief), for appellee.

Martin A. Donlan, Jr., Peter M. Mellette, Crews & Hancock, Richmond, on brief, for appellant amicus curiae.

Present: All the Justices.


WHITING, Justice.

We granted this appeal to decide whether a hospital's by-laws or Code § 32.1-134.1 creates a right to judicial review of a hospital's restriction of a physician's staff privileges.

Medical Center Hospitals (the hospital), a private, non-profit corporation, suspended Dr. Julia K. Terzis, a micro-neurosurgeon, from medical staff privileges. The hospital is a health care provider licensed to operate two facilities in the Norfolk area. Alleging...

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