A doctor has a capacitated patient who had what he believed to be a fibroid tumor. He wanted to remove the tumor,

A doctor has a capacitated patient who had what he believed to be a fibroid tumor. He wanted to remove the tumor, but was only able to get her consent to examination under anesthesia. Operating under his own personal code (“I treat every patient like family. If she were my mother, this is what I would want to do for her”), he removed her tumor while she was unconscious for the examination. She later claimed complications from the surgery. How do you think a court would respond if she later sued the doctor? Question 1 options: As long as the doctor treated the patient as he would his mother, his heart was in the right place. The surgeon who performs an operation without his patient’s consent commits an assault. None of these