What is the liability of a medical practitioner for failing to properly inform a patient?
Ontario, Canada
The following excerpt is from MacGregor v. Potts, 2009 CanLII 44720 (ON SC):
In the absence of misrepresentation and fraud, the failure to properly inform the patient goes to the negligence of the medical practitioner. See Reibl v. Hughes, 1980 CanLII 23 (SCC), [1980] 2 S.C.R. 880 at p. 892.
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