#680

Rogers V Whitaker is the worst thing that ever happened to medicolegal risk. instead of doctors being worried about actual negligence and lack of skill, we're just worried about writing a massive list of implausible complications on the consent form. If a patient wants to prove that a risk was material they should have to prove that being informed of the risk would have stopped them going ahead with the procedure. Telling a severely unwell patient there's a small risk of haemothorax with a central line would have just scared them, without stopping them from consenting to a life-saving procedure.