O'NEAL v. Hammer

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• distinguishing “consulting physicians,” who are not required to obtain informed consent, from “treating,” “referring,” and “second opinion” physicians who may be so required
• defining a “second opinion physician” as one who “is called in directly by the patient to advise the patient, and not the referring doctor, about the proposed course of treatment or surgery.”
• “[W]here a physician orders a specific procedure or otherwise retains control over the treatment of the patient, the physician is subject to a duty to obtain informed consent.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).