Bolton v. Caine

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• recognizing confidentiality and trust in doctor/patient relationship and consequent duty to disclose and treat a spot discovered on an x-ray because of the high risk of cancer
• failure to inform patient of possibly cancerous spot observed on lung x-ray constitutes actionable malpractice

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).