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PRECOURT v. FREDERICK

395 Mass. 689 (1985)

481 N.E.2d 1144

WILFRED E. PRECOURT & another vs. ALBERT R. FREDERICK, JR.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

August 19, 1985.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edward B. Hanify (Thomas H. Hannigan, Jr., with him) for the defendant.

William E. Searson, III (John F. Sheehan & James P. McCarthy with him) for the plaintiffs.

Kenneth Laurence, Ira S. Yanowitz, & James R. Pingeon, for Massachusetts Medical Society & others, amici curiae, submitted a brief.

Present: HENNESSEY, C.J., WILKINS, LIACOS, NOLAN, & O'CONNOR, JJ.

O'CONNOR, J.

In Harnish v. Children's Hosp. Medical Center, 387 Mass. 152, 155 (1982), we said that "a physician owes to his patient the duty to disclose in a reasonable manner all significant medical information that the physician possesses or reasonably should possess that is material to an intelligent decision by the patient whether to undergo a proposed procedure." We defined "materiality" as "the significance a reasonable person, in what the physician...

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