lic, it and the nurse owed him a duty of due care. That duty was breached by leaving Jason unattended for four hours; however, no damage may have resulted from the delay. The nurse may also have been negligent in ordering his transfer because it is relatively easy to check someone's Medicare coverage. Some injury or damage to Jason may have been the reasonably foreseeable result of the nurse's negligence in ordering a transfer (rather than having Jason treated on the spot); however, the jury will have to decide whether her negligence actually was the proximate cause of his lung collapse. The counterargument would be that the hospital is not legally o
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