(Answered):Health Law 10 . . . .

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Assessment 3: Written Assignment

It has been well understood in Australia for nearly 25 years that a there is a duty to warn extends to ‘material risks’by health care practitioners. Material risks are those that a reasonable person in the patient’s position would likely attach significance to, or if the medical practitioner is or should reasonably be aware that the particular patient, if warned of the risk, would attach significance to it (Rogers v Whitaker [1992] HCA 58; Wallace v Kam [2013] HCA 19). A more recent case Moracz v Marshman 2016 NSWCA 202 (sometimes called “The Sweaty Palms