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PAUSCHER v. IOWA METHODIST MEDICAL CENTER

No. 86-364.

408 N.W.2d 355 (1987)

Dennis James PAUSCHER, Administrator for the Estate of Becky Gay Pauscher, Appellant, v. IOWA METHODIST MEDICAL CENTER, Jeff Watters, and John Bardole, Appellees.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

Rehearing Denied July 20, 1987.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

R. Ronald Pogge of Hopkins & Huebner, P.C., Des Moines, for appellant.

Thomas A. Finley and Hugh J. Cain of Duncan, Jones, Riley & Finley, Des Moines, for appellee Iowa Methodist Medical Center.

John A. McClintock and David L. Brown of Hansen, McClintock & Riley, Des Moines, for appellee Jeff Watters.

Eugene Davis and Robert C. Rouwenhorst of Davis, Grace, Harvey, Horvath, Gonnerman & Rouwenhorst, Des Moines, for appellee John Bardole.

Considered by REYNOLDSON, C.J., and HARRIS, SCHULTZ, CARTER, and NEUMAN, JJ.

REYNOLDSON, Chief Justice.

The administrator of Becky Gay Pauscher's estate brought this wrongful death action against the defendant hospital and doctors, alleging Becky died as a direct result of a diagnostic procedure to which she had not given her informed consent. Trial court directed a verdict for defendants on the ground plaintiff had not produced testimony from medical experts to show that reasonable medical practice would have required her to be informed of...

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