Stacey v Chiddy
(1993) 4 Med LR 216
COMMON LAW DIVISION
and Mr Justice LEVINE
General practitioner — Negligence — Diagnosis — Breast cancer — Duty of care — Whether failure of general practitioner to examine palpable breast abnormality, in exercise of his clinical judgment, was breach of duty of care — Causation — Whether patient's reduced life expectancy on diagnosis of breast carcinoma attributable to failure by defendant to properly examine patient