Dingle v. Belin

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that patient stated a breach of contract claim when a resident physician “performed” the surgery instead of the surgeon who had been named on the consent form, even though the surgeon had delegated those duties to the resident
• concluding that patient stated a breach of contract claim when a resident physician “performed” the surgery instead of the surgeon who had been named on the consent form, even though the surgeon had delegated those duties to the resident
• concluding that patient stated a breach of contract claim when a resident physician “performed” the surgery instead of the surgeon who had been named on the consent form, even though the surgeon had delegated those duties to the resident
• opining that the identity of the physician who will be performing a surgery may require disclosure as part of an informed consent discussion
• recognizing, in a case where a patient alleged that she did not consent to performance of gall bladder surgery by a resident physician, that a lack of informed consent action is negligence-based
• “care must be taken to keep the actions [of negligence and informed consent] separate and not to allow the theories, elements, and recoverable damages to become improperly intertwined.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).