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HIGHTOWER v. BAYLOR UNIVER. MEDICAL CENTER

No. 05-07-00389-CV.

251 S.W.3d 218 (2008)

Dale HIGHTOWER, Jr., et al., Appellants v. BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER, Dr. Bernard Fischbach, Dallas Nephrology Associates, Dr. William Sutker, and North Texas Infectious Disease Consultants, Appellees.

Court of Appeals of Texas, Dallas.

April 22, 2008.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert D. Bennett, Robert D. Bennett & Associates, P.C., Gilmer, for Appellant.

Michelle E. Robberson, Derek S. Davis, Cooper & Scully, David M. Walsh, IV, Peter H. Anderson, Shakina Rasheed, Chamblee & Ryan, P.C., Dallas, for Appellee.

Before Justices O'NEILL, RICHTER, and LANG.

OPINION

Opinion by Justice LANG.

Family members and friends who visited a hospital patient infected with rabies sued Baylor University Medical Center, the patient's treating physicians, and the physicians' professional corporations, claiming that during the time the patient was hospitalized, "little or no precautions were set into place" by appellees to prevent visitors of the patient from contracting the patient's "unknown communicable disease." The trial...

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