Fall v. White

How courts have described this case

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• stating that a medical malpractice action should fail when the patient withholds information that thwarts a physician's ability to adequately treat the patient
• acknowledging that a patient does not have a duty to diagnose his own condition, but upholding verdict because there was sufficient evidence that showed plaintiff had failed to follow the doctor = s instructions and to give complete and accurate information
• finding trial court correctly instructed jury on contributory negligence when evidence demonstrated patient knew of importance in giving complete and accurate information to physician
• a contributory negligence instruction was appropriate when the patient failed to provide complete and accurate information to the doctor
• a contributory negligence instruction was appropriate when the patient failed to provide complete and accurate information to the doctor
• patient, when asked, told doctor he did not have chest pains when he did

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).