BIRBIGLIA v. SAINT VINCENT HOSPITAL, INC.


427 Mass. 80 (1998)

VINCENT P. BIRBIGLIA v. SAINT VINCENT HOSPITAL, INC., & others.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Worcester.

March 16, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Roy A. Bourgeois (George L. Dresser & Robert S. White with him) for the plaintiff.

Daly D.E. Temchine, of the District of Columbia, for Saint Vincent Hospital, Inc.

James C. Donnelly, Jr. (Charles B. Straus, III, with him) for Gilbert E. Levinson & another.

Present: WILKINS, C.J., ABRAMS, GREANEY, FRIED, MARSHALL, & IRELAND, JJ.


WILKINS, C.J.

In April, 1991, the board of trustees (board) of the defendant Saint Vincent Hospital (hospital), on recommendation of the executive committee of the hospital's medical staff (ECMS), decided not to reappoint the plaintiff, Dr. Vincent P. Birbiglia, to serve on the hospital's active medical staff.

In March, 1988, the plaintiff, a neurologist who had been on the hospital's active staff since 1972, submitted an application to the ECMS for reappointment...

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