Sanzari v. Rosenfeld

How courts have described this case

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• finding doctrine applied patient died due to dentist’s failure to ask patient about any history of hypertension
• observing that “it is within the common knowledge of laymen that a reasonable man . . . who knows a drug is potentially harmful to a certain type of patient should take adequate precaution before administering the drug or deciding whether to administer it”
• “Where, for example, a surgical sponge is left inside a patient after an operation, it is reasonable to say the probability is that someone has been negligent.” Ibid.
• dentist should not use anesthetic drug on patient known to him to be susceptible to harmful side effects when such use is contraindicated by brochure accompanying drug
• pre-AMS case holding that medical doctor is appropriate expert witness in case of alleged malpractice involving dental anesthesia
• failure to determine whether patient had high blood pressure before injecting form of adrenalin

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).