Smith v Tunbridge Wells Health Authority

(1994) 5 Med LR 334

QUEEN'S BENCH DIVISION

and Mr Justice MORLAND

Consent — Informed consent — Wells operation — Patient a young sexually active married man suffering from rectal prolapse — Whether surgeon under duty to warn patient of possibility of impotence and incontinence — Whether surgeon failed to discharge duty — Whether responsible body of medical opinion, including that of surgeon himself, regarded it as incumbent upon a surgeon to explain the particular risks to patient such as this plaintiff — Causation