Opinion ID: 734905
Heading Depth: 1
Heading Rank: 3

Heading: negligent treatment

Text: 20 Lacock challenges the quality of care the VA provided to Harper by arguing that it negligently prescribed Halcion. Even if this were true, it could not alone create a duty to warn or to control. To the extent that Lacock contends that the prescription was malpractice, he lacks standing to assert the claim. The duty to provide a certain standard of medical care exists only within a patient-physician relationship. See Llera v. Wisner, 557 P.2d 805, 811 (Mont.1976); Mont.Code.Ann. § 27-6-103(5); Rousey v. United States, 921 F.Supp. 1550, 1558-59 (E.D.Ky.1996); Moye v. United States, 735 F.Supp. 179, 181 (E.D.N.C.1990). CONCLUSION: 21 The court held correctly that the VA did not owe Lacock a duty of care, and therefore could not be found negligent. 22 AFFIRMED.