Court rejects $400,000 negligence claim against GP
16th May 2012
By Guest Writer
NSW Supreme Court judge Christine Adamson said the patient, James Peden, faced an early end to life after being diagnosed with sacral chordoma, a rare malignant bone tumour that often presented late with symptoms of pressure on other parts of the body.
But Justice Adamson said the case against Mr Peden’s GP, Newcastle-based Dr Michael Ferguson, whom Mr Peden first consulted in 1988, could only succeed if the patient proved that in a September 2007 visit he had complained of “altered sensation and feelings of electric shocks
