Court Opinion

ID: 9743326
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 21:31:02.931643+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:24:40.590954
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SULLIVAN, Judge,
concurring.
With two exceptions, I fully concur in the majority opinion.
I am unable to agree that in Collins v. Thakkar (1990) 1st Dist. Ind.App., 552 N.E.2d 507, trans. pending, there was a genuine issue as to whether Thakkar was acting as a physician or whether his acts were performed outside the doctor-patient relationship. Here, as in Collins, the acts were clearly within the seope of the Medi-eal Malpractice Act. For this reason I see no basis for distinction.
The majority alludes to the malpractice insurance policy as indicative of the view that "the medical profession and insurance industry regard [the] acts as within the practice of [the] medical specialty." Opinion at 840. In my view, such is wholly irrelevant to the issues before us and does not bear upon whether or not the particular conduct did or did not constitute the practice of medicine within the contemplation of the statutory language.
Subject to these observations, I fully concur.