Attorneys who deal with physicians as treaters, witnesses, experts or even defendants will want to pay attention to a wrongful-termination lawsuit involving an ear, nose and throat doctor who says in a lawsuit he was told to perform surgeries on patients who didn't need them.

"Medical malpractice attorneys and all attorneys who deal with doctors will care about this case because it's not often that you get insight into allegations about the way a physician's practice is managed," said plaintiff co-counsel Joshua Goodbaum, a partner with Garrison, Levin-Epstein, Fitzgerald & Pirrotti in New Haven.