134 Md. App. 472 - Hill v. Wilson’s Empirical Analysis

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2 federal appellate · 16 state decisions

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1. “We have recognized in the past that a patient is not in a position to diagnose her own ailments, appreciate the risks of medication or evaluate whether the prescribed course of treatment is in her best interest. As a consequence, it is not contributory negligence for a patient to follow a doctor’s instructions or rely on the doctor’s advice, to fail to consult another doctor when the patient has no reason to believe that the doctor’s negligence has caused her injury, or to fail to diagnose her own illness.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Landon v. Zorn

2. “give due consideration not only to all inferences of fact tending to support the opposite view [that the plaintiff was not contributorily negligent], but also to the important presumption that the plaintiff exercised ordinary care for his [own] safety.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Berkenfeld v. Lenet

3. “the issue of contributory negligence is a question for the jury where there is a conflict of evidence as to material facts relied on to establish contributory negligence, or more than one inference may be reasonably drawn therefrom.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Berkenfeld v. Lenet