DAVIS v. JOHNS HOPKINS HOSP.

No. 43, September Term, 1991.

330 Md. 53 (1993)

622 A.2d 128

JAMES ROBERT DAVIS, III ET AL. v. JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

April 2, 1993.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Angus R. Everton (Robert C. Morgan, Mason, Ketterman, & Morgan, Baltimore, all on brief), for petitioners/cross respondents.

Joseph G. Finnerty, Jr. (Jonathan D. Smith, Tracey Gann Turner, Piper & Marbury, Paul M. Rosenberg, Vice President and Gen. Counsel, A. Thomas Pedroni, Jr., Managing Atty., The Johns Hopkins Health System Corp., all on brief), Baltimore, for respondent/cross-petitioner.

Jerome G. Geraghty, Andrew Radding, Francine R. Strauss, Blades & Rosenfeld, PA, Baltimore, for amicus curiae The Maryland Hosp. Ass'n, Inc.

Argued before MURPHY, C.J., ELDRIDGE, RODOWSKY, McAULIFFE, CHASANOW and KARWACKI, JJ., and CHARLES E. ORTH, Jr., Judge of the Court of Appeals of Maryland (retired, specially assigned).


McAULIFFE, Judge.

For almost all of his young life, James Robert Davis, III (Bobby), has been seriously afflicted with status epilepticus and status asthmaticus. During the early morning hours of 2 March 1983, when he was three years of age, Bobby suffered unremitting seizures, compounded by asthma. Consistent with procedures earlier established for the treatment of Bobby's medical problems, his parents called the Anne Arundel County Fire Department, who in turn summoned...

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