Doctor sued where epileptic causes auto accident . An epileptic had a seizure while driving and killed another motorist. The Texas Court of Appeals ruled that a doctor can be sued by the motorist for failing to warn him not to drive. Although the doctor had treated the patient for neck pain, not epilepsy, he had a duty to warn because the patient had informed him that he recently had a seizure and the doctor renewed his prescription to his seizure medication to save him the cost of going back to his original physician. The court relied on a similar case from the Iowa Supreme Court.
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