Tant v. Women's Clinic

These consolidated medical malpractice suits (including the husband's derivative action for medical expenses and loss of services), claiming damages for negligence and lack of informed consent in the performance of a vaginal hysterectomy, present two dispositive issues:

1. Whether the trial Court erred in directing a verdict for the Defendant on the negligence claim where the urologist who performed the corrective surgery testified as follows:

"Q In a vaginal hysterectomy would it be anticipated that the ureter would be sutured in an operation?

"A No, Sir.

". . .

"Doctor, is it in keeping with the…