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4 canonical passages across 3 cases, quoted by 13 opinions in total. These passages cluster together because the same opinions keep quoting them side by side — they state parts of one doctrine. The anchor passage is from Martin Ex Rel. Scoptur v. Richards.

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1 Martin Ex Rel. Scoptur v. Richards Anchor
wis · 1995
green “any physician who treats a patient shall inform the patient about the availability of all alternate, viable medical modes of treatment and about the benefits and risks of these treatments.” 5
2 Cobbs v. Grant
cal · 1972
green “the patient's right of self-decision is the measure of the physician's duty to reveal.” 4
3 Scaria v. St. Paul Fire & Marine Insurance
wis · 1975
green “to make such disclosures as appear reasonably necessary under circumstances then existing to enable a reasonable person under the same or similar circumstances confronting the patient at the time of disclosure to intelligently exercise his right to consent or to refuse the treat…” 3
4 Scaria v. St. Paul Fire & Marine Insurance
wis · 1975
green “make such disclosures as appear reasonably necessary under circumstances then existing to enable a reasonable person under the same or similar circumstances confronting the patient at the time of disclosure to intelligently exercise his right to consent or to refuse the treatmen…” 1

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