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Doctor's duty to warn extends to patients, not third parties.

Publication: Trial
Publication Date: 01-JAN-04
Format: Online - approximately 611 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Doctor's duty to warn extends to patients, not third parties.(Tennessee)

Article Excerpt
A woman can sue a doctor because he didn't warn his patient not to drive while taking certain drugs; however, she cannot sue him for failing to consider the foreseeable harm to her when deciding whether to prescribe the drugs in the first place. So ruled the Tennessee Supreme Court, in a split decision that could have far-reaching effects the next time it hears a case involving the duty to warn third parties. (Burroughs v. Magee, No. W2001-00238-SC-R11-CV, 2003 WL 22247369 (Tenn. Oct. 1,2003).)

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