A hospital must turn over its credentialing records for two doctors whose alleged malpractice during surgery led to the amputation of their patient’s arms and legs.
The records created and held by nonparty Baton Rouge General Medical Center were relevant to establish what Our Lady of Lourdes Regional Medical Center—known as Heart Hospital—knew or should have known when it hired or granted privileges to physicians Azeem and Imtiaz Khan, brothers who performed plaintiff Donald Dupre’s coronary bypass surgery in 2020, the Louisiana Court of Appeals, Third Circuit, said Wednesday.
Louisiana, like most states, has a statutory peer review privilege that ...