Whiteside v. Lukson

How courts have described this case

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• holding that physician does not have duty to disclose to patient information about physician’s experience in performing proposed procedure in order to obtain patient’s informed consent
• holding that a surgeon’s lack of experience in performing a particular surgical procedure is not a material fact for purposes of finding liability predicated on failure to secure an informed consent
• holding that a surgeon's lack of experience in performing a particular surgical procedure is not a material fact for purposes of finding liability predicated on failure to secure an informed consent
• holding that physician does not have duty to disclose to patient information about physician's expe- rience in performing proposed procedure in order to obtain patient's informed consent
• observing that a doctrine of this breadth would sweep to include “the physician’s own health, financial situation, [and] even medical school grades”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).