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Physicians And Surgeons—Malpractice—Informed Consent Of Patient: Duty To Inform Patient To Be Established By Expert Medical Testimony—Zebarth V. Swedish Hospital Medical Center, 81 Wn. 2d 12, 499 P.2d 1 (1972), L. D. K.
Washington Law Review
Plaintiff was suffering from a highly malignant form of cancer resulting in serious obstruction of the trachea. He was admitted to the defendant hospital where it was determined that radiation therapy was necessary to reduce the obstruction before it completely blocked the plaintiff's breathing. After completion of the radiation therapy, plaintiff began to suffer from a progressive paralysis which plaintiff claimed was caused by damage to his spinal cord, attributable to the manner in which the radiation was administered. Plaintiff sued in the Superior Court for King County, alleging that since he was neither warned of the risk of damage …
Introduction, Thomas L. Shaffer
Introduction, Thomas L. Shaffer
Journal Articles
This symposium abounds with learning and insight, but one should not overlook the fact that its purposes and its effect are revolution. Institutional confinement of the "mentally ill" in America is a massive social failure and a festering evil. These authors lawyers, social scientists, scholars, psychiatrists, and students have a target in their sights, and they are not out primarily to analyze the target; they are out to destroy it.
Contractual Aspects Of Malpractice, Kevin H. Tierney
Contractual Aspects Of Malpractice, Kevin H. Tierney
Faculty Scholarship
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