ACCUSATORY STATEMENTS NOT DEFAMATORY department to treat the directed to the hos

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ACCUSATORY STATEMENTS NOT DEFAMATORY department to treat the directed to the hospital'ss which recommended Dr. Chowdhry's staff privileges, of law, te November 1. in response to Dr Citation: Chowahry North Las Vegas Hosptal inc, 851 Pad 459 (Nev 1993) request. a hearing was hekd betcm committoe. As a reeut d te Chowdhry's staff privileges wore reprimand was placed in his file for self, the patient, and the hospital. The amergency department of a hospital complaining of dest panardstortress of breath, Dr. Lapca, the On Oetober 2, a young woman entered the dagnosed the patient as suffering from a possible pneumohemochorax which required the place- rimand expunged from his Dr. Chowdhry to file an action ment of a chest tube to drain accumulated fluids. Dr. Silver, MMe Dr. Lapica had recently performed surgery on the emergency physioian on duty saw her. Dr. Lapica D Chowdhry's al Mr. Moore, Dr. Wlichins, and D Moore, Dr. Wichins,andt. Chowdhry's complaint alleged based upon negligence, breach of spiracy, defamation, and negigent infiction of emotional distress. The detic concluded that Dr. Chowdhry had no basis for bringing the action and fees and costs to the defendants, and Dr.Oros contacted Dr. Chowdhry, a physician who and who was abso the on-call thoracic surgeon at the hospital,and intormed Dr. Chowdhry that his services were required at the hospital. The record revealed that Dr. Chowdhry refused to return to the hospital to treat the patient because he had recenty left there and would treat her only if she were transferred to University Medical Center (UMC). Dr. Chowdhry testi- fied that he could not return to the hospital because Did the district court err in dismissing the dan of defamation and infliction of emotional dsteat of a conficting emergency at UMC Dr. Lapica then contacted the hospital's chief of staff, Dr. Wilchins, and told him that Dr. Chow-Holding hry refused to come to the hospital and attend to the patient. Both physicians concluded that if the patient could be safely transported to UMC, the transfer should be affected so that Dr. Chowdhry The Nevada Supreme Court held that the dor court did not err in dismissing the claims of detr tion and infliction of emotional distress. could treat her Reason The patient was ultimately transported to UMC where Dr. Lapca and Ms. Crow, the supervising nurse at the hospital, prepared incident reports detailing the events and submitted them to the Dr. Chowdhry's emotional distres cns premised upon respondents accusatons patient abandonment. Dr. Chowdhry as a result, "he was very upset and sleep. Insomnia and general physical or discomfort administrator, Mr. Moore. On October 3, Mr. Moore informed Dr. Silver, UMC's Chief of Surgery, that Dr. Chowdhry had retused to come to the hospital emergency | isfy the physical impact requirement to were found to be insufficient t distress. Thus, Dr. Chowdhry failed. as

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Establish an Action for defamation

Libel, and, slander are written, and, spoken or oral defamatory statements respectively. Libelous statements could be:

Slander

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