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BLAKE v. SOUTHCOAST HEALTH SYSTEM, INC.

No. Civ.A. 00-10591-WGY.

145 F.Supp.2d 126 (2001)

William J. BLAKE and Theresa R. Blake individually and as administrators of the Estate of Betty Ann Blake, Plaintiffs, v. SOUTHCOAST HEALTH SYSTEM, INC., d/b/a Charlton Hospital; First Physicians Corporation, Inc.; Miguel Brillantes; Michael A. Pellegrino; and Thomas F. Cahill, Defendants.

United States District Court, D. Massachusetts.

June 12, 2001.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Philip N. Beauregard, John A. Markey, Beauregard & Burke, New Bedford, MA, for plaintiffs.

Colleen Cronin, William J. Davenport, Bloom & Buell, Curtis R. Diedrich, Sloane & Walsh, Nadine Nasser Donovan, Rindler & Morgan, P.C., Joanne Gulliford Hoban, Alan B. Rindler, Rindler & Morgan, Boston, MA, Joan Eldridge, Martin C. Foster, Foster & Eldridge, Cambridge, MA, Stephen P. Harten, Ratcliffe & Burke, LLP, Providence, RI, for defendants.

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

YOUNG, Chief Judge.

The Hippocratic philosophy of medicine1 declares that nothing should be more important to a physician than the best interests of the patient who comes to him for care.... Few people faced with a diagnosis of potentially remediable ... disease should be willing to give up the struggle if there is any reasonable chance that some promising form of treatment is available to lessen...

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