BIVINS v. STATE EX REL. OKL. MEM. HOSP.

No. 81319.

917 P.2d 456 (1996)

Rebecca M. BIVINS and Nancy J. Enox, Co-Administrators of the Estate of Rosemary Williams, Deceased, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. STATE of Oklahoma ex rel. OKLAHOMA MEMORIAL HOSPITAL; Sherri Durica, M.D.; Donald Carter, M.D.; Randy Eichner, M.D.; Tim Hepner, M.D.; R. Parham, M.D.; Selby, M.D. (first name unknown); L. Brooks, M.D.; John Doe, M.D. (radiologist); J. Raunikar, M.D.; T. Ingmire, M.D.; R. Elwood, M.D.; Silvester, M.D., Defendants-Appellees.

Supreme Court of Oklahoma.

Rehearing Denied May 30, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jose Gonzalez, Suzanne Woodrow, Gonzalez & Woodrow, Purcell, and Richard L. Denney, Lydia J. Barrett, Denney & Barrett, Norman, for Appellants.

Inona J. Harness, Haven Tobias, Pierce Couch Hendrickson Baysinger & Green, Oklahoma City, for Appellee Physicians.

Charles L. Waters, General Counsel, Richard W. Freeman, Jr., Assistant General Counsel, Department of Human Services, Oklahoma City, for Appellee Oklahoma Memorial Hospital.


OPALA, Justice.

This public-law controversy presents three questions, the first two of which are dispositive of the appeal: (1) Does the Governmental Tort Claims Act [GTCA]1 shield faculty physicians, student physicians and medical-school interns — who are either teaching or participating in a graduate medical education program at Oklahoma Memorial Hospital [OMH]—from...

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