CROSS v. TRAPP

No. 15121.

294 S.E.2d 446 (1982)

Raymond CROSS and Lucy Cross v. D. C. TRAPP, M.D., and Ohio Valley Medical Center, Inc.

Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia.

July 14, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bogarad & Robertson, Martin S. Bogarad and William R. Kiefer, Weirton, for appellants.

O'Brien, Cassidy & Gallagher, Frank A. O'Brien, Jr. and Patrick Cassidy, Galbraith, Seibert, Kasserman, Farnsworth, Gillenwater & Glauser and Elba Gillenwater, Jr., Wheeling, for appellees.


McHUGH, Justice:

In this action we are asked to consider the requirements of a consent given by a patient prior to surgery. On a broader scale, we are asked to review a physician's duty to disclose to his patient methods of treatment, including surgery, and the risks incidental to such methods of treatment.

Specifically, this action is before this Court upon an appeal by the appellants, Raymond Cross and Lucy Cross...

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