Wennerholm v. Stanford University School of Medicine

Plaintiffs appeal from a judgment entered in favor of defendants after an order sustaining defendants’ demurrers to the fifth amended complaint without leave to amend. Plaintiffs’ original and first four amended complaints charged the defendants with negligence. In these complaints it was alleged that the plaintiff, Cecilia Wennerholm, consulted her family physician in regard to her obesity and that he prescribed dinitrophenol for her on a written prescription which was filled by a pharmacy. While under the care of her physician, plaintiff took the drug, which was manufactured by one of the…