Peters v. Gelb

TAYLOR, Judge.

Plaintiffs, husband and wife, sued defendants for damages' resulting from an unsuccessful vasectomy operation performed by defendants on husband.

At the trial defendants testified to the surgical procedure which they followed. A urological surgeon who practices in Wilmington, Delaware testified that the surgical procedure described by defendants was the accepted procedure. He further testified that recent medical literature disclosed that in a small percentage of such operations a physiological phenomenon known as recanalization occurs.

A physician presently residing in New…