Bryson v. Aven

1. The relation of patient and physician is a confidential one, and where, in curetting a womb, it becomes necessary, in order to effect a successful result, to insert a pessary, a duty devolves upon the physician to inform the patient within a reasonable time of the use of the pessary, and direct her as to when it should be removed. A failure so to inform the patient is a fraud upon her, and if injury result therefrom to the patient, a cause of action accrues at the time' of the discovery of the fraud, or when, by the exercise of due care the fraud might *722have been discovered by her,' and not…