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Court of Appeals of Maryland· 9/17/1993

Reed v. Campagnolo

Citations

  • 630 A.2d 1145
  • 332 Md. 226
  • 1993 Md. LEXIS 144

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding that a failure to recommend a diagnostic procedure is properly an allegation of medical malpractice, not one of breach of informed consent
  • concluding that wrongful-birth cases “present a form of proximate cause reasoning that is analogous to that applied in informed consent cases”
  • plaintiff in malpractice case must show a lack of requisite skill or care on the part of professional that was a direct cause of injury
  • “Under the Act, this Court considers ‘only questions of state law, not questions of fact,’ ” quoting Mercantile Safe Deposit and Trust Co. v. Purifoy, supra, 280 Md. at 54, 371 A.2d at 655
  • a cause of action under a theory of lack of informed consent does not arise from a physician’s failure to inform a pregnant patient about the availability, risks and benefits of diagnostic testing which might reveal birth defects
  • utilizing Section 302 to analyze causality, not duty of care

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Judges: Rodowsky

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Cites

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