VA · jury_instructions
Va. Model Jury Instr. Civ. No. 35.080
Treatment Without Informed Consent
A doctor has a duty to obtain his patient’s informed consent before he treats him. Informed
consent means the consent of a patient after a doctor has given the patient all information about
the treatment and its risks that would be given to a patient by a reasonably prudent practitioner in
the doctor’s field of practice or specialty. A doctor is not required, however, to tell a patient what
he already knows or what any reasonably intelligent person would know.
If a doctor fails to perform this duty, then he is negligent and is liable for any injury
proximately resulting from the doctor’s treatment if you believe from the evidence that the
patient would have refused the treatment if the doctor had disclosed the information.
History
Virginia Model Jury Instructions – Civil, Release 26, April 2026. The unannotated set, posted by the Supreme Court of Virginia at vacourts.gov; the book states that it is made available with the permission of the publisher, Matthew Bender & Company, Inc.
Provenance
- Source
- vacourts.gov
- Retrieved
- 2026-10-11
- Edition
- civ-2026-04-01
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