Trial - Massachusetts doctors liable to third parties for failure to warn patients.
A physician owes a duty of reasonable care, under ordinary negligence principles, to everyone foreseeably put at risk by the doctor’s failure to warn a patient of the potential side effects of treatment, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court has held.
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Noting that courts in other states have imposed this duty in similar circumstances, the court reversed summary judgment and remanded for trial a case involving a doctor whose 75-year-old patient, not warned that his medications could impair his driving ability, lost consciousness behind the wheel of his car and fatally injured a …
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