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Informed consent doesn’t shield this neurosurgeon

A physician loses a malpractice case due to a known complication:

At trial, Wagner, OHSU’s lawyer, told the jury that Ackerman’s injury was a known risk of the surgery, and Ackerman had signed the consent form acknowledging that his doctor had educated him on complications.

But of course, “money was never the issue.”

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