Bowman v. Beghin

OPINION

SHARPNACK, Chief Judge

Eric Bowman appeals the trial court’s order granting John Beghin, M.D.’s motion for summary judgment. Bowman raises one issue which we expand and restate as:(1) whether a claimant must present expert testimony on the issue of informed consent where the claim is that a surgeon told his patient, the claimant, that he would perform a specific surgery and did not; and,(2) whether a claimant must present expert testimony on the issue of causation where the claim is that he would not have consented to surgery but for the representation by a surgeon that he would perform…