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· 5/10/1988

Baltzell v. Van Buskirk

Citations

  • 752 S.W.2d 902
  • 1988 Mo. App. LEXIS 671
  • 1988 WL 45280

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • lack of informed consent is not within concept of battery, “which is reserved for cases where the physician ignores patient’s request for explanation or where a patient consents to one type of treatment but physician performs a substantially different treatment”
  • lack of informed consent is not within concept of battery, \which is reserved for cases where the physician ignores patient's request for explanation or where a patient consents to one type of treatment but physician performs a substantially different treatment\

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Judges: Nugent, Clark, Kennedy

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