DEPENBROK v. KAISER FOUNDATION HEALTH PLAN, INC.

Docket No. 50561.

79 Cal.App.3d 167 (1978)

144 Cal. Rptr. 724

DOROTHY KELLEY DEPENBROK, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. KAISER FOUNDATION HEALTH PLAN, INC., et al., Defendants and Appellants.

Court of Appeals of California, Second District, Division Four.

March 28, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Thelen, Marrin, Johnson & Bridges, Robert K. Worrell and Susan H. Schmid for Defendants and Appellants.

Roger Bentley for Plaintiff and Respondent.


OPINION

KINGSLEY, J.

Defendants appeal from a judgment against them in an action for medical malpractice. We reverse the judgment.

Plaintiff, a young woman of 21, had had two children by caesarean section; she was again pregnant and faced a third delivery. She was told by a doctor on the staff of defendant that any further such deliveries would be highly dangerous. The doctor recommended that, when the third caesarean was...

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