Definition: In this task, you will be shown a prompt from a judicial decision and multiple holding statements derived from citations following text in a legal decision. Holdings represent the governing legal rule when the law is applied to a particular set of facts. There are five answer choices for each citing text. The correct answer is the holding statement that corresponds to the citing text. The four incorrect answers are other holding statements. You should find the correct option. There is a <HOLDING> token in the position of the citing text prompt where the holding statement was extracted.
Input: of this[,] verbalizing her understanding and agreement"); id. at 133 (setting forth the testimony of the attending anesthesiologist, Dr. William Shepard, who stated that there was "a period of deliberati 3 A. 341, 342 (1932)). Similarly well-established is the proposition that claims alleging a lack of consent for a surgical procedure constitute a battery committed upon a patient by a physician. Montgomery, 798 A.2d at 749 (providing that "a claim involving a surgical procedure performed without any consent at all by the patient ... sounds in battery"); Morgan v. MacPhail, 550 Pa. 202, 704 A.2d 617, 620 (1997) (acknowledging that the performance of a surgical procedure upon a patient without his consent constitutes a battery); Gray v. Grunnagle, 423 Pa. 144, 223 A.2d 663, 669 (1966) (<HOLDING>). The tort of battery has been described as an
Holding statements: (A) holding a jury question existed as to whether a patient consented to an operation and whether the operation received was substantially similar to the operation to which the patient consented so as to be within the scope of the consent (B) holding that a patient who endures an operation without his consent may base his action on a tortious battery (C) holding that in pennsylvania lack of informed consent claims utilize a battery standard that is a physician commits battery where the patient does not consent to the procedure on his person thus constituting a harmful or offensive contact (D) holding that an operation without the patients consent sounds in battery (E) holding medical practices patient base is not protectable interest
Output:
(B)