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· 6/12/1987

Eiss v. Lillis

Citations

  • 357 S.E.2d 539
  • 233 Va. 545
  • 3 Va. Law Rep. 2821
  • 1987 Va. LEXIS 224

How courts have described this case

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  • holding that patient’s negligent ingestion of aspirin and heart medication could not be compared with the defendant physician’s negligence
  • holding that patient's negligent ingestion of aspirin and heart medication could not be compared with the defendant physician's negligence
  • holding that patient’s negligent ingestion of aspirin and heart medication could not be compared with the defendant physician’s negligence
  • reversing and remanding for a new trial because jury had been instructed to consider that patient had negligently taken aspirin along with heart medicine prior to the physician’s alleged negligence as evidence of contributory negligence
  • the plaintiffs negligently taking aspirin along with heart medicine before the physician’s alleged negligence was not a proximate cause of the plaintiffs death

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Judges: Carrico, Poff, Compton, Stephenson, Russell, Thomas, Cochran

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