context: Thus, the students have not cited, and we have not found, a single North Carolina case permitting unrelated third party victims of a patient to sue the patient's health care providers for medical malpractice, or even suggesting that such claims are possible. Instead, North Car olina courts have emphasized the policy reasons counseling rejection of such suits; " 'doctors- should owe their duty to their patient and not to anyone else' so as not to compromise this primary duty."
citation_a.signal: see also
citation_a.identifier: 127 S.E. 356, 359
citation_a.parenthetical: holding that doctors may limit the extent of their responsibility to patients by narrowing the scope of the doctor-patient relationship
citation_a.sentence: Russell v. Adams, 125 N.C.App. 637, 482 S.E.2d 30, 33 (N.C.Ct.App.1997) (rejecting a third party claim of harm based on the care provided by a medical provider to a patient) (citations omitted); see also Childers v. Frye, 201 N.C. 42, 158 S.E. 744, 746 (N.C.1931) (holding that doctors do not have to accept patients); Nash v. Royster, 189 N.C. 408, 127 S.E. 356, 359 (N.C.1925) (holding that doctors may limit the extent of their responsibility to patients by narrowing the scope of the doctor-patient relationship).
citation_b.signal: no signal
citation_b.identifier: 482 S.E.2d 30, 33
citation_b.parenthetical: rejecting a third party claim of harm based on the care provided by a medical provider to a patient
citation_b.sentence: Russell v. Adams, 125 N.C.App. 637, 482 S.E.2d 30, 33 (N.C.Ct.App.1997) (rejecting a third party claim of harm based on the care provided by a medical provider to a patient) (citations omitted); see also Childers v. Frye, 201 N.C. 42, 158 S.E. 744, 746 (N.C.1931) (holding that doctors do not have to accept patients); Nash v. Royster, 189 N.C. 408, 127 S.E. 356, 359 (N.C.1925) (holding that doctors may limit the extent of their responsibility to patients by narrowing the scope of the doctor-patient relationship).