Cathemer v. Hunter

How courts have described this case

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• holding a jury question existed as to whether a patient consented to an operation and whether the operation received was “substantially similar” to the operation to which the patient consented so as to be within the scope of the consent
• reversing directed verdict for physician where patient consented to right hip prosthesis but received total hip replacement
• jury may determine whether medical procedure fell within scope of patient’s consent
• jury may determine whether medical procedure fell within scope of patient's consent

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).