title: Consent--Scots law and the patient's right to know.
abstract: Four cases highlight interesting points in relation to the legal considerations, in Scotland, of consent to medical treatment. MOYES sets the broad parameters and deals with the situation or risk established but a reasonable warning given of that risk. INGRAM and COSGROVE are cases where the risk averred to exist was not proved to exist. GOORKANI brings together risk, a causal link between the risk and the injury, and negligent failure to warn of the risk. And it has the interesting twist of the nature of the loss which had to be compensated--not infertility but the loss of the opportunity to adjust to the prospect of infertility.
authors.forename: J R
authors.initials: JR
authors.lastname: Griffiths
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000792:Angiography / Q000009:adverse effects; D035881:Compensation and Redress; D030881:Disclosure; D064420:Drug-Related Side Effects and Adverse Reactions; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007258:Informed Consent / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D010535:Laparoscopy / Q000009:adverse effects; D008297:Male; D008318:Malpractice / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D010344:Patient Advocacy; D018570:Risk Assessment; D012606:Scotland