With no explanation, chose the best option from "A", "B", "C" or "D". 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

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 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
C: holding that a patient who endures an operation without his consent may base his action on a tortious battery
D: holding that an operation without the patients consent sounds in battery
C.