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BLAZ v. MICHAEL REESE HOSP. FOUNDATION

No. 96 C 0091.

74 F.Supp.2d 803 (1999)

Joel BLAZ and Frances Lauer, Plaintiffs, v. MICHAEL REESE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION dba Michael Reese Hospital and Medical Center, and Arthur B. Schneider, M.D., Defendants.

United States District Court, N.D. Illinois, Eastern Division.

November 10, 1999.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Martin H. Freeman, Barbara E. Hirsch, Freeman & Jenner, P.C., Rockville, MD, E. Cooper Brown, H.W. Cummins, Cummins & Brown, Takoma Park, MD, for Joel Blaz.

Marvin A. Brustin, Ltd., Chicago, IL, for Frances Lauer.

Michael J. Morrissey, Julie Ann Teuscher, Cassiday, Schade & Gloor, Chicago, IL, Charles R. Krikorian, Welsh & Katz, Ltd., Chicago, IL, for Galen Hospital.

Williams P. Dorr, Hugh L. Moore, David C. Hall, Jason Ayres Parson, David Craig Hall, William Andrew Rakoczy, Lord, Bissell & Brook, Chicago, IL, for Arthur B. Schneider, MD.

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

BUCKLO, District Judge.

Is there a duty to warn the subject of radiation treatments when a physician in charge of a hospital research program created to investigate the risks of its previous radiation treatment policies uncovers in his research a strong connection between those treatments and certain sorts of tumors? Here the physician contends that he had no duty to warn because he was not the subject's treating physician...

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