Affiliation:
1. Senior Registrar in obstetrics and gynaecology, Birmingham Maternity Hospital
Abstract
There has been a substantial increase in litigation for failure of sterilization operations. Recent court cases indicate that doctors must inform their patients about the risk of failure of such operations. The word sterilization suggests permanence and it is suggested that female sterilization should be renamed tubal occlusion.
Subject
Law,Health Policy,Issues, ethics and legal aspects
Cited by
2 articles.
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1. Failed sterilization and the law;BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology;1988-02
2. Contraception, Pregnancy, Childbirth—When Things Go Wrong;Medicine, Science and the Law;1986-01