Sistrunk v. Hoshall

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the original tortfeasor was liable for a subsequent treating physician’s failure to obtain informed consent
• “Although failure to obtain informed consent may also constitute a technical battery, labeling the act an intentional tort does not change the action from what it is, a species of medical negligence”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).