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Physician Negligence: The Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts Extends Duty to Warn Patients of Side Effects of Prescriptions to Foreseeable Third Parties - Coombes v. Florio

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 January 2021

Mary Davis
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American Journal of Law & Medicine , Volume 34 , Issue 1 , March 2008 , pp. 87 - 90
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Copyright © American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics and Boston University 2008

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26 877 N.E.2d 567 (Mass. 2007).

27 Id. at 572.

28 Id. at 568.

29 Id.

30 Id.

31 Id.

32 Id.

33 Id.

34 Id.

35 Id. at 569.

36 Id.

37 Id.

38 Id.

39 Id.

40 Id. at 569-70.

41 Id.

42 Id. at 570.

43 Id.

44 Cottam v. CVS Pharmacy, 764 N.E.2d 814, 820 (Mass. 2002).

45 Coombes, 877 N.E.2d at 571.

46 Id. at 571.

47 Id.

48 Id. at 572.

49 McKenzie v. Hawai’i Permanente Med. Group, 47 P.3d 1209, 1218 (2002).

50 Joy v. E. Me. Med. Ctr., 529 A.2d 1364, 1366 (Me. 1987).

51 Coombes, 877 N.E.2d at 572-73.

52 Id.

53 Id. at 573.

54 Id.

55 Id.

56 Id.

57 Id.

58 Id.

59 Id.

60 Id. at 575.

61 Id. at 576 (Greaney, J., concurring).

62 Id. at 579.

63 Id. at 580 (Marshall, J., dissenting).

64 Id.