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The Bolamcase itself embraced failure to advise the patient of the riskinvolved in the electric shock treatment as one of the allegationsof negligence against the surgeon as well as negligence in theactual carrying out of treatment in which that risk did result ininjury to the patient. Some American courts have recognised such a duty. Thecombined chance of one or other occurring was put by theneurological experts at something below two per cent., of whichinjury to the spinal cord was rather more likely to have seriousconsequences if it were to happen, but the chances of itshappening were was less than half the chance of damage to thenerve roots, i.e. In my view the appellant has failed to prove that Mr.Falconer was in breach of the duty of care which he owed to herin omitting to disclose the risk which the trial judge found as afact he did not disclose to her. Mr. Falconer has since died.Mrs. Whatever be the correct formulation of the applicablelaw, the issue cannot be settled positively for or against thedoctor without knowing what advice, including any warning ofinherent risk in the operation, he gave his patient before shedecided to undergo it and what was his assessment of the mental,emotional, and physical state of his patient. Theoperation involved working within three millimetres of the spinalcord, exposing the cord and interfering with the nerve root. My Lords, the submission is untenable. The facts giving rise to this appeal have been fullyrecounted by my noble and learned friend, Lord Scarman. Ideally, the court should ask itself whether in the particularcircumstances the risk was such that this particular patient wouldthink it significant if he was told it existed. I drawattention in briefest summary only to those which seem to mecentral to the issue of law arising for decision. These supply blood to the cord and areextremely vulnerable because of (a) their size and (b) theunpredictable nature of their siting. Bibliographic Citation. Between 1958 and 1960 Mrs. Sidaway suffered pain as aresult of deformity in the region of her fifth and sixth cerviclevertebrae. I agree with your Lordships that this appeal should bedismissed. I find itsignificant that no common law jurisdiction either American orCanadian which has espoused the doctrine of "informed consent"appears to have suggested that the surgeon was under a duty towarn his patient of such general risks which, rare though they maybe, do happen and they are real risks. << /Filter /FlateDecode 3. The Fetus Abortion And Infanticide Notes. Further, the medical evidence also emphasised that inreaching a decision whether or not to warn his patient acompetent and careful surgeon would attach especial importance tohis assessment of the character and emotional condition of hispatient, it being accepted that a doctor acting in the bestinterests of his patient would be concerned lest a warning mightfrighten the patient into refusing an operation which in his viewwas the best treatment in the circumstances. Its foundation is the doctrine of"informed consent" which was originally based on the assumptionmade in U.S. Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit, inCanterbury v. Spence (1972) 464 F. 2d 772, where the cynic mightbe forgiven for remarking it enabled a defence under the StateStatute of Limitations to be outmanoeuvred, that, prima facie, thecause of action in a case of surgery was trespass to the personunless "informed consent" to the particular battery involved in thesurgical operation could be proved. Professor Brazier's article identifies many concerns, but the main theme is the inadequacy of the law following the leading House of Lords case of Sidaway v Bethlem Royal Hospital Governors. After some time the pain disappeared. A patient may also make an unbalancedjudgment if he is provided with too much information and is madeaware of possibilities which he is not capable of assessing becauseof his lack of medical training, his prejudices or his personality.Thus the provision of too much information may prejudice theattainment of the objective of restoring the patient's health. 11 0 R [1] 2004 UKHL 41 [2] [1957] 1 W.L.R. endobj 4 Bolam v Friern Hospital Management Committee [1957] 1 W.L.R. Mostunfortunately, the surgeon who performed the operation died beforethese proceedings were instituted. Mr. Falconer lacked neither care for his patient'shealth and well-being nor professional skill in the advice andtreatment which he offered. There may be a numberof different practices which satisfy this criterion at any particulartime. The first defendants are thegoverning body of the Maudsley Hospital where she was treatedand where she underwent the operation. Consequently, Bolam filed a negligence claim against Friern Hospital Management Committee, arguing that Dr. Affrey was both negligent in the execution of the ECT treatment and in failing to warn him of the risk of injury. 15 Sidaway v Board of Governors of the Bethlem Royal Hospital and Mawdsley Hospital 1995 AC 871. In 1973, he wrote to Mrs. Sidaway askinghow she was. ... Sidaway v. Board of Governors of Bethlem Royal Hospital  Unknown author (Great Britain. 454. Thelaw, however, operates not in Utopia but in the world as it is:and such an inquiry would prove in practice to be frustrated bythe subjectivity of its aim and purpose. 102, 108, thatonly a minority of states in the United States of America havechosen to follow Canterbury and that since 1975 "there has been agrowing tendency for individual states to enact legislation whichseverely curtails the operation of the doctrine of informedconsent." In my judgment the merit of the propositions enunciated inCanterbury v. Spence (1972) 464 F. 2d 772 is that withoutexcluding medical evidence they set a standard and formulate atest of the doctor's duty the effect of which is that the courtdetermines the scope of the duty and decides whether the doctorhas acted in breach of his duty. If the doctor omits to warn wherethe risk is such that in the court's view a prudent person in thepatient's situation would have regarded it as significant, the doctoris liable. In the case of Sidaway v Board of Governors of the Bethlem Royal Hospital and the Maudsley Hospital [2] Lord Diplock , Lord Templeman and Lord Scarman all affirmed the application of the Bolam principle. /Outlines 2 0 R No doubt if the patient in fact manifested this attitude bymeans of questioning, the doctor would tell him whatever it wasthe patient wanted to know; but we are concerned here withvolunteering unsought information about risks of the proposedtreatment failing to achieve the result sought or making thepatient's physical or mental condition worse rather than better.The only effect that mention of risks can have on the patient'smind, if it has any at all, can be in the direction of deterring thepatient from undergoing the treatment which in the expert opinionof the doctor it is in the patient's interest to undergo. Diagnosis.itself may involve exploratory surgery, the insertion of drugs by'injection (or vaccination) involves intrusion upon the body of thepatient and oral treatment by drugs although it involves nophysical intrusion by the doctor on the patient's body may in thecase of particular patients involve serious and unforeseen risks. 432, Bristow J.did consider whether there is any rule in English law comparablewith the doctrine of informed consent. In English law, if this doctrine were adopted, expertmedical opinion as to whether a particular risk should or shouldnot have been disclosed would presumably be inadmissible inevidence. /CreationDate (D:20201218) The existence of such a practice was alsorecognised by the other medical witnesses. Sidaway v Board of Governors of Bethlem Royal Hospital [1985] & Informed Consent. Before attempting to answer these questions it is necessaryto set out the facts of the case. In modern medicineand surgery such dissection of the various things a doctor has todo in the exercise of his whole duty of care owed to his patient isneither legally meaningful nor medically practicable. This being my view of the law, I have tested the factsfound by the trial judge by what I believe to be the correct legalcriterion. 582 [3] [1955] S.C. 2000 [4] See post -We need to talk about Bolam [5] Sidaway v Board of Governors of Bethlem Royal Hospital [1984] Q.B. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Sidaway v. Board of Governors of the Bethlem Royal Hospital [1985] AC 871 is an important House of Lords case in English tort law, specifically medical negligence, concerning the duty of a surgeon to inform a patient of the risks before undergoing an operation. The case was heard by McNair J. and a jury. The appellant's second submission is that she has a cause ofaction which is independent of negligence in the Bolam sense. 2. So there areeliminated from our consideration matters of clinical judgment ofthe neuro-surgeon as to how to conduct a bilateral discussion withthe patient in terms best calculated not to scare her off fromundergoing an operation which, in the exercise of the paramountduty of care he owed to her individually to exercise his skill andjudgment in endeavouring to heal her, he is satisfied that it is inher interests to undergo despite such risks as may be entailed. We do not knowhow Mr. Falconer explained the operation to Mrs. Sidaway and wedo not know the reasons for the terms in which he couched hisexplanation. Further, the judge lackedevidence which Mr. Falconer alone could have given as to his. This result is achieved first byemphasis on the patient's "right of self-determination" and secondlyby the "prudent patient" test. He also concluded that, even if Mrs Montgomery had been given advice about the risk of serious harm to her baby as a consequence of shoulder dystocia, it would have made no difference in The risk ofpartial paralysis, as in this case where the purpose of theoperation was not to save life but merely to relieve pain,illustrates the sort of question which may face first the doctorand later the court. Green-top guideline No. The risk of either sort of damage occurring was not great: onesurgeon estimated the degree of risk at between one and two percent. In Sidaway v Bethlem Royal Hospital Governors [2] the Bolam test was applied to the duty of disclosure. Where the court lacks directevidence as to the nature and extent of the advice and warning (ifany) given by the doctor and as to his assessment of his patientthe court may well have to conclude that the patient has failed toprove her case. The recent case of Sidaway v. Board of Governors of the Bethlem Royal Hospital and the Maudsley Hospital2 in the House of Lords has a lot to say about another aspect of medical litigation, the duty of a doctor with regard to questions of disclosure. . Sidaway v Board of Governors of the Bethlem Royal Hospital and the Maudsley Hospital: HL 21 Feb 1985 The plaintiff alleged negligence in the failure by a surgeon to disclose or explain to her the risks inherent in the operation which he had advised. Is this still an accurate reflection of the law? However much sympathymay be felt for Mrs. Sidaway and however much in hindsight theoperation may be regretted by her, the question now is whetherMr. It also presents difficulties for theappellant. This is variously explained onthe ground that the patient may be expected to be aware of suchrisks or that they are relatively remote. It was common ground between ail the neuro-surgeons who gaveevidence that the operation involved specific risks beyond thoseinherent in all operations under general anaesthetic. (3d) 1, in which thejudgment of the Supreme Court came too late to be considered byMr. endobj The true test forestablishing negligence in diagnosis or treatment on the partof a doctor is whether he has been proved to be guilty ofsuch failure as no doctor of ordinary skill would be guilty ofif acting with ordinary care . In finding that the Second Defendant was negligent and the First Defendant is The trial judge's assessment of the risk at one to two percent. risk of ill effectsranging from the mild to the catastrophic." Two answers in his cross-examination were of greatimportance. Sidaway v Board of Governors of the Bethlem Royal Hospital The case. For discussion see Sarah Devaney, ‘Autonomy Rules OK’ (2005) 13 Med L Rev 102. If a doctor conscientiously. The right of "self-determination" - the description applied bysome to what is no more and no less than the right of a patientto determine for himself whether he will or will not accept thedoctor's advice - is vividly illustrated where the treatmentrecommended is surgery. In view of the fact that Mr, Falconer recommended theoperation, Mrs. Sidaway must have been told or could haveassumed that Mr. Falconer considered that the possibilities ofdamage were sufficiently remote to be ignored. If, however, the Bolam principle is to be applied tothe exclusion of any other test to advice and warning, there willbe cases in which a patient who suffers injury though ignorance ofa risk known to the doctor has no remedy. L.R. Is this still an accurate reflection of the law? 2d783. The duty of a doctor to warn wasconsidered in Bolam v. Friern Hospital Management Committee[1957] 1 W.L.R. In 1958 she had injured an elbow at work and as aresult had suffered persistent pain. This being the state of the evidence, the question for theHouse is whether the omission by Mr. Falconer to warn his patientof the risk inherent in the operation of damage to the spinal cordwith the possible result of a partial paralysis was a breach of dutyowed by him to his patient. It could be argued that,the patient's consent is to be fully informed, the doctor mustspecifically warn him of all risks involved in the treatmentoffered, unless he has some sound clinical reason not to do so.Logically, this would seem to be the extreme to which a trulyobjective criterion of the doctor's duty would lead. ] It is a case of cervical cord decompression surgery leading to paraplegia and the … >> endeavours to explain the arguments for and against a majoroperation and the possibilities of benefiting and the dangers, thecourt will be slow to conclude that the doctor has been guilty ofa breach of duty owed to the patient merely because the doctoromits some specific item of information. Her case is that she was not informed of a riskinherent in the operation, that the risk materialised with the resultthat she suffered, and continues to suffer, serious personal injury,and that, had she been warned, she would not have consented tothe operation. The recent case of Sidaway v. Board of Governors of the Bethlem Royal Hospital and the Maudsley Hospital2 in the House of Lords has a lot to say about another aspect of medical litigation, the duty of a doctor with regard to questions of disclosure. SIDAWAY (A.P.) Davies in Whitehouse v Jordan,5 and the House of Lords in Maynard v West Midlands RH A.6 In Sidaway v Board of Governors of the Bethlem Royal Hospital and the Maudsley Hospital (a case considered in Part III) Lord Diplock, in a ringing endorsement of the test, observed that it was She was severely disabled by a partial paralysis resultingfrom her operation. It was for the appellant, as plaintiff, to establish that therisk was so great that the doctor should have appreciated that itwould be considered a significant factor by a prudent patient inthe appellant's situation deciding whether or not to have theoperation. On admission, Mrs. Sidaway was thoroughly examined by Dr.Goudarzi, a junior member of Mr. Falconer's team. %PDF-1.3 The Bolam test should beapplied. The judge was thusdriven to base the finding to which I have earlier referred in parton inference from documents, but mainly on the evidence of otherdoctors as to what they knew of the deceased surgeon's customarypractice when discussing with patients an operation of the kind theappellant was to undergo. The attemptfails: there is no comparison to be made between the relationshipof doctor and patient with that of solicitor and client, trustee andcestui qui trust or the other relationships treated in equity as of afiduciary character. When thejudge dealt with the facts, he reminded the jury of the differingevidence of the doctors as to the extent of warning which theybelieved to be proper before a patient decided to undergo asurgical operation. I should also add that I find particularly cogent andconvincing the reasons given for declining to follow Canterbury bythe Supreme Court of Virginia in Bly v. Rhoads (1976) 222 S.E. Chatterton v. Gerson [1981] 1 All ER 257 2. Falconer was negligent in the explanation which he gave. They mustindeed be taken to have thought that the facts proved as tothe relationship of the parties in Perry v. Peek were notenough to establish any special duty arising out of thatrelationship other than the general duty of honesty. The relevant form of action has been based innegligence, i.e. If the doctor making abalanced judgment advises the patient to submit to the operation,the patient is entitled to reject that advice for reasons which arerational, or irrational, or for no reason. It may bethat most patients, though not necessarily all, have a vagueknowledge that there may be some risk in any form of medicaltreatment: but it is flying in the face of reality to assume thatall patients from the highest to the lowest standard of educationor intelligence are aware of the extent and nature of the riskswhich, notwithstanding the exercise of skill and care in carryingout the treatment, are inevitably involved in medical treatment ofwhatever kind it be but particularly surgical. There isfurther a question of law as to the nature of the cause of action.Is it a cause of action in negligence, i.e. Nevertheless the relationship of doctor andpatient is a very special one, the patient putting his health and hislife in the doctor's hands. damage to a nerve root or to the spinal cord was obvious. Sidaway v Board of Governors of Bethlem Royal Hospital [1985] & Informed Consent. assessment of his patient with especial reference to his view as towhat would be the effect upon her of a warning of the existenceof a risk, albeit slight, of serious personal injury arising from theoperation however skilfully and competently it was performed.Such being the limitations upon the availability of criticallyimportant evidence, I confess that I find it surprising that the trialjudge felt able to reach the detailed findings as to the extent ofthe warning given which are a striking feature of his judgement.There is, however, no appeal against his findings; and I have nodoubt that your Lordships' House must proceed upon the basis ofthe facts as found. Ms. Sidaway, who suffered from constant shoulder and neck pains, was advised by a surgeon employed by the hospital to have an operation on her spinal column to relieve her pain. 1 Chatterton v Gerson [1980] 3 W.L.R. For discussion see Sarah Devaney, ‘Autonomy Rules OK’ (2005) 13 Med L Rev 102. Insuch a case, in the absence of some cogent clinical reason whythe patient should not be informed, a doctor, recognising andrespecting his patient's right of decision, could hardly fail toappreciate the necessity for an appropriate warning. Next. This is what theAmericans call the doctor's "therapeutic privilege." 582, where it was treated as one to be answeredwithin the context of the duty of care and skill owed by a doctorto his patient. Basing himself on evidence of the usual practice of Mr.Falconer and apparently assuming that Mr. Falconer's explanationto every patient followed the same practice, the trial judge,without the benefit of any direct evidence from Mr. Falconer orMrs. She was examined byMr. . And, ifthe right be qualified, where does the law look for the criterionby which the court is to judge the extent of the disclosurerequired to satisfy the right? I have had the advantage of reading in draft the speech tobe delivered by my noble and learned friend, Lord Bridge ofHarwich. If the law recognises the right andthe obligation, is it a right to full disclosure or has the doctor adiscretion as to the nature and extent of his disclosure? BETHLEM ROYAL HOSPITAL AND THE MAUDESLEY HOSPITAL HEALTHAUTHORITY AND OTHERS (RESPONDENTS). The surgeon knew or ought to have knownthat there was a four per cent. There is no room in the concept of informedconsent for the "objective" patient (as he is referred to at onepoint by the Supreme Court of Canada) to whom the doctor isentitled, without making any inquiry whether it is the fact or not,to attribute knowledge of some risks but not of others. Mrs. Sidaway was 71 years of age at the time of the trialin 1982. We know nothing of the emotional idiosyncraciesof the plaitiff, Mrs. Sidaway ("the patient"), even in ordinaryhealth let alone under stress of ill-health and the prospects ofwaiting for surgical treatment at the hands of Mr. Falconer ("theneuro-surgeon"); and yet a doctor's duty of care, whether he begeneral practitioner or consulting surgeon or physician is owed tothat patient and none other, idiosyncracies and all. 641 Hirst J. followed Skinner J. in thiscase, adding a comment with which I respectfully agree, that itwould be deplorable to base the law in medical cases of this kindon the torts of assault and battery. 582. But to my mindthis further information would only have reinforced the obvious,with the assurance that the maximum risk of damage, slight orserious, did not exceed two per cent. Interact directly with CaseMine users looking for advocates in your area of specialization. Mrs. Sidaway's evidencewas not accepted: and Mr. Falconer was dead. Bibliography: Statutes. It is, of course,possible that Mr. Uttley's evidence was not directed to anythingother than negligence in the Bolam sense. 1 0 obj been referred, in any jurisdiction. 217.). and two per cent. In McNair, J’s address to t… A doctor who operates without theconsent of his patient is, save in cases of emergency or mentaldisability, guilty of the civil wrong of trespass to the person: heis also guilty of the criminal offence of assault. In my opinion a simple and general explanation of thenature of the operation should have been sufficient to alert Mrs.Sidaway to the fact that a major operation was to be performedand to the possibility that something might go wrong at or nearthe site of the spinal cord or the site of the nerve root causingserious injury. Having rejected the Canterbury doctrine as a solution to theproblem of safeguarding the patient's right to decide whether hewill undergo a particular treatment advised by his doctor, thequestion remains whether that right is sufficiently safeguarded bythe application of the Bolam test without qualification to thedetermination of the question what risks inherent in a proposedtreatment should be disclosed. For the last quarter-of-a-century the test applied in English law as to whether a doctor hasfulfilled his duty of care owed to his patient has been that set outin the summing-up to the jury by McNair J. in Bolam v. FriernHospital Management Committee [1957] 1 W.L.R. Sidaway v Board of Governors of the Bethlem Royal Hospital & The Maudsley Hospital HL 1985 Facts: Claimant suffered from recurrent pain in her neck, right shoulder and arms. /ProcSet 4 0 R that risk represented. At once a formidable difficultyarises. Mr. Falconer was dead before the trial. Case: Sidaway v Board of Governors of the Bethlem Royal Hospital [1985] UKHL 1. of risk should or should not be given, the facts found establishliability. Longer titles found: Sidaway v Board of Governors of the Bethlem Royal Hospital searching for Bethlem Royal Hospital 10 found (154 total) alternate case: bethlem Royal Hospital. Bristow J. adopted the same criterion in Chattertonv. 2d 558, isdiscussed learnedly and lucidly in an article published in the LawQuarterly Review, upon which I have drawn extensively in reachingmy opinion in this appeal. He must acknowledge that in verymany cases factors other than the purely medical will play asignificant part in his patient's decision-making process. In the event of anoperation is the risk common to all surgery, e.g. Sidaway v Board of Governors of the Bethlem Royal Hospital The case. Regrettable though a "non-proven" verdict is, itis not, therefore, surprising. Inevitably alltreatment, medical or surgical, involves some degree of risk thatthe patient's condition will be worse rather than better forundergoing it. It is probable that he explained thenature of the operation [to his patient] ... in simpleterms. Itwould be a strange conclusion if the courts should be led toconclude that our law, which undoubtedly recognises a right in thepatient to decide whether he will accept or reject the treatmentproposed, should permit the doctors to determine whether and inwhat circumstances a duty arises requiring the doctor to warn hispatient of the risks inherent in the treatment which he proposes. He did, however, carefullyand helpfully devote part of his judgment to a consideration of thetransatlantic cases which accept a doctrine of informed consent.He was, if I may say so, right to refuse to follow them: he wassitting at first instance and was faced with formidable Englishauthority accepting the Bolam test (Skinner J. in the present caseand Bristow J. in respect of advice: and this House in respect ofdiagnosis and treatment.) Once you create your profile, you will be able to: Claim the judgments where you have appeared by linking them directly to your profile and maintain a record of your body of work. The medical evidence even of Mr. Uttley, theappellant's expert witness, gets nowhere near establishing themateriality of the risk in the sense just outlined. In 1974 a senior neuro-surgeon advised her to undergo surgery. Bolam v Friern Hospital Management Committee [1957] 2 All ER 118; Bolitho v City and Hackney Health Authority [1997] 4 All ER 771 and Sidaway v Bethlem Royal Hospital Governors and others [1985] 1 All ER 643 applied. 634 (per Lord Scarmanat p. circumstances: and he applied the Bolam test to determine thereasonableness of what the doctor did. 4 Sidaway v Board of Governors of the Bethlem Royal Hospital (1985) AC 871 5 Bolam v Friern Hospital Management Committee (1957) 1 WLR 582 6 Chester v Afshar (2004) UKHL 41 In Sidaway, Lord Scarman referred to self-determination, ... Sidaway v Board of Governors of the Bethlem Royal Hospital and others [1985] AC 871. Bibliographic Citation. 42. 493 [6] O’Malley-Williams v Board of Governors of the National Hospital for Nervous Disease [1975] 1 B.M.J. Get 1 point on adding a valid citation to this judgment. The two aspects of the risk, namely the degree oflikelihood of it occurring and the seriousness of the possible injuryif it should occur, can in most, if not all, cases be assessed onlywith the help of medical evidence. Dr. Goudarzi confirmed that he had given her thisexplanation: but he made it clear in his evidence that he wouldhave left warning of the risks to Mr. Falconer. Speaking of the position as it was in 1981Mr. None of the medicalwitnesses suggested that his decision to recommend the operationwas itself wrong. All England Law Reports 1984; 1: 1018-1036. Uttley, the distinguished surgeon called on behalf of Mrs.Sidaway, said that the possible effects of the damage ranged froma sensation of pins and needles in the hand to paraplegia, i.e. Did he fail to provide her with the informationnecessary for her to make a prudent decision? Recommend this journal Email your librarian or administrator to recommend adding this journal to your organisation's collection. . Mrs. Sidaway was suffering increasing pain as a result ofpressure on the fourth cervicle nerve root. Where the practice of the medicalprofession is divided or does not include express mention, it willbe for the court to determine whether the harm suffered is anexample of a general danger inherent in the nature of theoperation and if so whether the explanation afforded to the patientwas sufficient to alert the patient to the general dangers of whichthe harm suffered is an example. The test is conveniently referred to as the Bolamtest. I find no difficulty in accepting the four propositionsenunciated in Canterbury's case. The relationship of doctor and patientbetween Mr. Falconer and herself had been long-standing prior tothe operation. a heart orlung or blood condition. 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