Suit Allowed, but Damages Cut in Doctor's Affair With Patient

Finding a patient could bring a malpractice suit against a physician with whom she had a nine-month affair while he was treating her, the Court of Appeals nonetheless threw out a punitive damage award in her favor on the grounds she failed to show the doctor engaged in "evil or malicious conduct" beyond any breach of professional duty.

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