Darling v. Charleston Community Memorial Hospital: The patient's injury in this case seems clearly to have been caused by a bad doctor (who, as the beginning of the opinion indicates, settled with the patient for $40,000). Why then was the hospital also found to be negligent? Is this case primarily about the behavior of individual nurses, or is the hospital also being held responsible for larger policy decisions?

Darling v. Charleston Community Memorial Hospital, 33 Ill. 2d 326, 211 N.E.2d 253, 14 A.L.R.3d 860 (Ill. 1965)