Analyzing the confidentiality provision of Pennsylvania's Peer Review Protection Act, a Monroe County judge has denied a Pennsylvania couple's request to depose a hospital's chief medical quality officer in a lawsuit filed after a surgery at the hospital resulted in one of the plaintiffs losing a kidney.
Court of Common Pleas Judge Arthur L. Zulick ruled that although Dr. Jonathan Goldner had met with plaintiffs Robert and Phyllis Besecker to discuss the inconclusive results of a peer review that stemmed from Robert Besecker's surgery at Pocono Medical Center, that did not grant the plaintiffs the ability to discover the entire peer review.
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