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Ever go to the doctor and they tell you that you need surgery, but they don’t tell you the potential risk of having that surgery? Who is at fault here if the doctor fails to tell you the risk and the procedures? Would it be the doctors fault; would it be the patients fault or would it be both? Knowing the risk and procedure is very crucial information. You need to know everything about your procedure. Some people feel like the less they hear about their surgery the more they feel okay about it. If that is your case, make sure you sign the HIPPA form allowing the doctor to tell a family member or friend about your procedure. You do not want for no one to know. What would you do if after the surgery would were at home and something happened, but no one could help you because you did …show more content…
There have been many law suit cases taken out because of the doctor failing to explain what the risk are during and after the surgery. When the risk is not told the patients does not know what to do or how to take care of the surgery, so of course after the surgery something will happen and then the law suit is ordered. That is exactly what happened in the Canterbury vs. Spence case in 1972.
Canterbury age 19 was having sever upper back pain so he went to see Dr. Spence. (Quimbee) Spence who is a neurosurgeon gave Canterbury a myelogram, and discovered Canterbury had a defect in the region of his fourth thoracic vertabra. (Canterbury) Canterbury was scheduled for a back surgery called laminectomy to fix his ruptured disc by Dr. Spence. (Canterbury) (Lawnix) While at the visit in the doctor’s office Dr. Spence failed to mention what the risk and procedures were for the back surgery. There are only two acceptations to where a doctor does not have to go over risk and procedures with a patient and that is when the patients is unconscious and when helping becomes more harming then helping, the second is where informing the risk to the patient poses a threat to the patients

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