Miller Ex Rel. Miller v. HCA, INC.

How courts have described this case

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• providing that Texas Legislature has recognized that parents are presumed appropriate decision-makers with right to consent to infant’s medical care and surgical treatment
• “[T]he general rule in Texas is that a physician who provides treatment without consent commits a battery.”
• “Provided it is subsequently born alive, even an unborn fetus is a ‘patient’ to whom a doctor treating the mother owes a duty of care.” (citing Brown v. Shwarts, 968 S.W.2d 331, 334 (Tex. 1998))

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).