Goorkani v Tayside Health Board

(1991) 3 Med LR 33

COURT OF SESSION, OUTER HOUSE

and Lord CAMERON

Professional liability — Drug treatment — Side effects — Duty to warn of side effects — Immuno — suppressive therapy — Treatment with Chlorambucil — Eyesight saved but patient irreversibly sterile — Treatment initially on trial short — term basis — Doctor aware of risk of infertility where treatment longer term — Patient not advised of risk — Whether physician of ordinary competence would have given any advice as to risk of infertility — Whether sperm banking should have been offered — Damages — Quantum — Infertility — Frustration and disruption brought to marriage relationship