Does a physician have a duty to disclose the material risks of an operation?
New Brunswick, Canada
The following excerpt is from Kitchen v. McMullen, 1989 CanLII 218 (NB CA):
It should be noted that Farrell v. Snell was a medical negligence case, and not a failure to disclose case. The physician's duty to disclose the material risks of the operation had been fulfilled in Farrell v. Snell.
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