McKenzie v. Hawaii Permanente Medical Group,

McKenzie v. Hawaii Permanente Medical Group,
No. 23268 (Haw. June 10, 2002)

The
Supreme Court of Hawaii held that a physician does not owe a duty to non-patient
third parties injured in an automobile accident caused by a patient’s adverse
reaction to a medication that is not a controlled substance, alleged to have
been negligently prescribed by the physician several days earlier, when the
alleged negligence involves such "prescribing decisions" as whether
to prescribe the medication in the first instance, which medication to prescribe,
and the dosage prescribed.