Opinion

Shannon v. Fusco

  • 438 Md. 24
  • 89 A.3d 1156
  • 2014 Md. LEXIS 275
  • 2014 WL 1632629
Court
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Filed
Apr 24, 2014
Status
Published
Author
Eldridge
On the bench
Barbera, Harrell, Battaglia, Greene, Adkins, McDonald, Eldridge
Cited by
7 cases
Authority
More cited than 11.4%

outlining the informed consent elements and explaining that the breach must be “the proximate cause of the patient’s injuries”

How later courts described this case

  • outlining the informed consent elements and explaining that the breach must be “the proximate cause of the patient’s injuries”
  • “Information pertaining to an ‘off-label’ use provides the patient with no information about the treatment itself.”

Written by the judges who cited it.

The opinion

ELDRIDGE, J.,

dissenting.

I dissent. See Univ. of Md. Medical System Corp. v. Waldt, 411 Md. 207, 238-242 (Adkins, J., dissenting), 250 (Raker, J., joined by Eldridge, J., dissenting), 983 A.2d 112, 130-133, 138 (2009).

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