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DENNIS LEE THIAN POH & ORS v. MICHAEL SAMY & ANOR
Federal Court, Putrajaya
Raus Sharif CJ, Ahmad Maarop CJM, Ramly Ali, Zaharah Ibrahim, Alizatul Khair Osman Khairuddin FCJJ
[Civil Appeal No: 02(f)-80-12-2013(W)]
9 July 2018
[2018] 6 MLRA 1

JUDGMENT

Raus Sharif CJ:

Introduction

[1] This appeal arose from a claim by the husband and children of the late Madam Hoh Pau Yu ("the deceased") against Dr Michael Samy, a Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist ("the 1st respondent"), and Gleneagles Hospital (KL) Sdn Bhd ("the 2nd respondent"). The deceased passed away in the Gleneagles Intan Medical Centre ("the Hospital"), a private hospital owned and operated by the 2nd respondent, after a childbirth attended to by the 1st respondent.

[2] Leave to appeal was granted by this court on 5 December 2013 for the following questions of law:

Question 1

If a doctor is aware of a dearth of medical knowledge in a particularly unconventional treatment, the potential risks involved and the contraindications which resonate against it, is that doctor under an obligation to advise a patient of these facts to enable that patient to decide whether to refuse or accept that particular treatment?

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[2016] 5 MLRH 501
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