Gill

Plaintiff, Zora S. Gill, M.D., appeals from the order dismissing his complaint, the order denying his motion for reconsideration of an earlier order denying his motion to tax costs, i.e., the award of attorney fees and costs to defendants, and the order denying his motion to strike defendants’ supplemental memorandum of costs and partially denying his motion to tax those supplemental costs, i.e., the award of postjudgment attorney fees and costs. We affirm.

Statement of the Case

Following the denial of his petition for writ of mandate in the superior court, and during the pendency of the appeal of that denial, plaintiff filed this complaint. The writ petition sought review of administrative proceedings which culminated in plaintiff being denied full surgical staff privileges at defendant Mercy Hospital.

On appeal, this court affirmed the trial court’s denial of the writ petition finding that substantial evidence supported the decisions of the hospital board, the ad hoc committee and the trial court that plaintiff “ ‘exhibited a pattern of substandard surgical technique for vascular and complex major surgical cases’ ” and “ ‘exhibited a pattern of poor medical judgment…