THIS OPINION HAS NO PRECEDENTIAL VALUE.� IT SHOULD NOT BE CITED OR RELIED ON AS PRECEDENT IN ANY PROCEEDING EXCEPT AS PROVIDED BY RULE 239(d)(2), SCACR.

THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA
In The Supreme Court

Peggy Salters, Respondent,

v.

Palmetto Health Alliance Inc.,  d/b/a Palmetto Baptist Medical Center; Robert Schnackenberg, M.D., individually; Eric Lewkowiez, M.D., individually; Columbia Psychiatric Associates, PA, P. Kenneth Huggins, M.D., individually, Defendants,

of whom Eric Lewkowiez, M.D. is Petitioner.

ON WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE COURT OF APPEALS

Appeal From Richland County
�L. Casey Manning, Circuit Court Judge

Memorandum Opinion No. 2009-MO-032
Heard June 9, 2009 � Filed June 22, 2009��

DISMISSED AS IMPROVIDENTLY GRANTED

Andrew F. Lindemann, William H. Davidson, II, and Lawrence S. Kerr, all of Davidson, Morrison & Lindemann, of Columbia, for Petitioner.

John W Carrigg, Jr., of Irmo, and Mark W Hardee, of Columbia, for Respondent.

PER CURIAM:� We granted a writ of certiorari to review the Court of Appeals� unpublished opinion in Salters v. Palmetto Health Alliance, Inc. et al., Op. No. 2007-UP-187 (S.C. Ct. App., filed April 24, 2007).� We� now dismiss the writ as improvidently granted.� ��

DISMISSED AS IMPROVIDENTLY GRANTED.

TOAL, C.J., WALLER, PLEICONES, BEATTY, JJ., and Acting Justice E. C. Burnett, III, concur.