Hart v Chappel

(1994) 5 Med LR 365

SUPREME COURT OF NEW SOUTH WALES, COMMON LAW DIVISION

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Professional liability — Ear, nose and throat — Consent — Failure to warn — Patient presenting with chronic sore throat — Pharyngeal diverticular and associated narrowing of adjacent oesophagus — Endoscopic division of pharyngial pouch — Perforated oesophagus or pharynx — Mediastinitis following operation — Damage to patient's recurrent right laryngeal nerve — Causation — Loss of opportunity