Woods v. Brumlop

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that only 15 a medical expert is competent to testify as to the cause and effect of a medical 16 condition
• cause and effect of a physical condition lies in a field in which only medical expert can give competent opinion
• “[T]he cause and effect of a physical condition lies in a field of knowledge in which only a medical expert can give a competent opinion.”
• not requiring an expert to establish the risks inherent in a procedure where a physician knowingly misrepresents these risks to a patient

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).