Summing up recent scholarship on medical malpractice cases where the defendants argued there was no physician-patient relationship because they merely provided “curbside consultations,” the Kansas Court of Appeals explained that “the law around the country is a hodgepodge.” The question in the Kansas case was “whether a neurologist formed a doctor-patient relationship with a woman when an emergency room physician called him to consult on a tentative diagnosis and the need for further diagnostic testing.”A trial judge …