Akins v. Novinger’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
1
cited by 1 later decisions
January 2014
most recently cited
Relationships
Relies on Colonial Refrigerated Transportation, Inc. v. Mitchell · 58 Tenn. App. 15 - Osborne v. Frazor · Baker v. Sherwood Construction Co. · Beech v. Hunter
Most-quoted passages
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“[If a general practitioner] discovers that his patient’s ailment is beyond “his knowledge or technical skill, or ability or capacity to treat with a likelihood of reasonable success” he is under a duty to disclose the situation to his patient “or advise him of the necessity of other or different treatment.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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