KENNETH HUNTER, APPELLANT,

v.

THE STATE OF FLORIDA, APPELLEE

Citator

Cited By

• Vendola v. S. Bell Tel. & Tel. Co., 474 So. 2d 275 (Fla. 4th DCA 1985)
  …inkerton-Hays Lumber Co. v. Pope, 127 So. 2d 441 (Fla.1961); Bessett v. Hackett, 66 So. 2d 694 (Fla.1953); Tampa Electric Co. v. Jones, 138 Fla. 746, 190 So. 26 (1939); Seaboard Air Line Ry. v. Mullin, 70 Fla. 450, 70 So. 467 (1915); Piper v. Moore, 410 So. 2d 646 (Fla. 3d DCA 1982); Whitehead v. Linkous, 404 So. 2d 377 (Fla. 1st DCA 1981); Matthews v. Williford, 318 So. 2d 480 (Fla. 2d DCA 1975); Sims v. Apperson Chemicals, Inc., 185 So. 2d 179 (Fla. 1st DCA 1966); Atlantic Coast Line Railroad v. Ponds, 156…
• The Upjohn Co. v. Anne Marie MacMURDO, 536 So. 2d 337 (Fla. 4th DCA 1988)
  …treatment. Citing this court’s Mack decision, the court stated that “public policy dictates that a patient does not have an obligation or. duty to determine whether an injury is being properly treated.” Id. at 78 (emphasis added). In Piper v. Moore, 410 So. 2d 646 (Fla. 3d DCA 1982), the court affirmed the trial court’s setting aside a jury verdict which found decedent (plaintiff’s wife) comparatively negligent by not seeking medical attention at an earlier state of her illness. The trial court found as a mat…
• Gumper v. Richard S. Bach, D.D.S., 474 So. 2d 420 (Fla. 3d DCA 1985)
  …ee Mack v. Garcia, 433 So. 2d 17, 18 (Fla. 4th DCA 1983), pet. for review denied, 440 So. 2d 352 (Fla.1983) (“[A] patient does not have an obligation or duty to determine whether an injury is being properly treated by a physician.”); Piper v. Moore, 410 So. 2d 646 (Fla. 3d DCA 1982). A rule that a person whose teeth hurt after he goes to a dentist must go back to that dentist or to another one at any particular time may be a great (but unnecessary) boon to the dental profession, but it does not comport with t…

Authorities Cited

• Flowers v. State, 353 So. 2d 1259 (Fla. 3d DCA 1978)
• Girtman v. State, 270 So. 2d 380 (Fla. 3d DCA 1972)