Trantafello v. Medical Center of Tarzana

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that section 24174(a) deals with experiments on human subjects in the course of pure research and did not apply to an innovative procedure that had a therapeutic purpose
• affirming trial court conclusion that “[intentional concealment] would have to have occurred either at or subsequent to the time that the medical procedure was undertaken”
• “Where the doctor fails to inform the patient of all the material risks and potential complications, the action sounds in professional negligence . . . .”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).