What is the test to establish medical abandonment?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Hicks v. McLean, B298800 (Cal. App. 2020):
To establish medical abandonment, a patient must show her physician withdrew from the patient's course of treatment without providing due notice and ample opportunity for the patient to secure the services of another physician. (See Payton v. Weaver (1982) 131 Cal.App.3d 38, ___ [concluding a kidney specialist did not abandon and
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