Forensic psychiatry & mental health law

Psychiatry & Law Radar

Fri 11 SepCASE

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HOLICK V. BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER

— STAFF
We decline to disturb the discovery ruling, but we vacate so much of the judgment as dismissed a part of Holick's whistleblower claim and his public policy claim. We affirm the dismissal of the rest of his whistleblower claim and of his contract claim.

Massachusetts Appeals Court · affirmed in part

Whether a physician's informal complaints about colleagues' diagnoses are protected reports under the health care whistleblower statute.

https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/10971920/holick-v-boston-medical-center/