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Washington Supreme Court· 11/6/1986

Watson v. Hockett

Citations

  • 727 P.2d 669
  • 107 Wash. 2d 158

How courts have described this case

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  • holding that the instruction is to be given \with caution\ and should be limited to situations where the doctor is faced with a choice of treatments
  • holding that the instruction is to be given “with caution” and should be limited to situations where the doctor is faced with a choice of treatments
  • warning “error of judgment” instruction should be given in limited circumstances with caution
  • \[A] doctor will not normally be held hable under a fault based system simply because the patient suffered a bad result.\ (Footnote omitted.)
  • future jury instructions should remove the word “honest” since it inserts an argumentative aspect not appropriate for jury instruction practice
  • \[A] doctor will not normally be held liable under a fault based system simply because the patient suffered a bad result.\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Andersen, Dolliver, Utter, Brachtenbach, Dore, Pearson, Callow, Goodloe, Durham

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Cites

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