Pauscher v. Iowa Methodist Medical Center

How courts have described this case

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• stating one element of informed consent is proof that “[d]isclosure of the risk would have led a reasonable patient in plaintiff’s position to reject the medical procedure or choose a different course of treatment”
• “Disclosure of the risk would have led a reasonable patient in plaintiff’s position to reject the medical procedure or choose a different course of treatment . . . .”
• “[T]he patient ordinarily will be required to present expert testimony relating to the nature of the risk and the likelihood of its occurrence, in order for the jury to determine, from the standpoint of a reasonable patient, whether the risk is a material one.”
• “Further, the patient ordinarily will be required to present expert testimony relating to the nature of the risk and the likelihood of its occurrence, in order for the jury to determine, from the standpoint of the reasonable patient, whether the risk is in fact a material one.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).