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ARATO v. AVEDON

Docket No. S029049.

5 Cal.4th 1172 (1993)

858 P.2d 598

23 Cal. Rptr.2d 131

MIRIAM ARATO et al., Plaintiffs and Appellants, v. MELVIN AVEDON et al., Defendants and Respondents.

Supreme Court of California.

September 30, 1993.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Marian Tully for Plaintiffs and Appellants.

Baker, Silberberg & Keener, Marshall Silberg, John C. Kelly, Veatch, Carlson, Grogan & Nelson, C. Snyder Patin, Horvitz & Levy, Frederic D. Cohen and Ari R. Kleiman for Defendants and Respondents.

Catherine I. Hanson and Alice P. Mead as Amici Curiae.

OPINION

ARABIAN, J.

A physician's duty to disclose to a patient information material to the decision whether to undergo treatment is the central constituent of the legal doctrine known as "informed consent." In this case, we review the ruling of a divided Court of Appeal that, in recommending a course of chemotherapy and radiation treatment to a patient suffering from a virulent form of...

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