Johnson v. Staten Island Medical Group
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
*709Public Health Law § 2805-d (1) defines lack of informed consent as “the failure of the person providing the professional treatment ... to disclose to the patient such alternatives thereto and the reasonably foreseeable risks and benefits involved as a reasonable medical, dental or podiatric practitioner under similar circumstances would have disclosed, in a manner permitting the patient to make a knowledgeable evaluation.” To establish a cause of action sounding in lack of informed consent, a plaintiff must establish that “a reasonably prudent person in the patient’s position would not have…
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