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BLOTNER v. DOREIKA

No. S08G2016.

678 S.E.2d 80 (2009)

BLOTNER v. DOREIKA.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

June 8, 2009.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Owen, Gleaton, Egan, Jones & Sweeney, H. Andrew Owen, Jr., Milton B. Satcher III, Melissa R. Phillips Reading, Atlanta, for appellant.

Warshauer, Poe & Thornton, Lyle G. Warshauer, Steven R. Thornton, Atlanta, for appellee.

Donald J. Palmisano, Jr., Peters & Monyak, Robert P. Monyak, Jeffrey S. Bazinet, McGarahan, Villines & Honis, Aubrey T. Villines, Jr., Heidi A. Honis, J. Marcus Edward Howard, amici curiae.

HUNSTEIN, Presiding Justice.

We granted certiorari to consider whether the Court of Appeals erred by adopting a common law doctrine of informed consent and applying it to chiropractors. Doreika v. Blotner, 292 Ga.App. 850(1), 666 S.E.2d 21 (2008). Because Georgia does not recognize a common law duty to inform patients of the material risks of a proposed treatment or procedure, see Albany Urology Clinic v. Cleveland,

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