Informed consent generally requires that you be informed of all major risks associated with your surgery. Surgeons are not necessarily required to discuss every possible risk involved, but are required to disclose the serious risks. To evaluate whether you have a medical malpractice case, we will evaluate the undisclosed risk to determine whether a reasonable, trained surgeon would have considered the risk serious and disclosed it to the patient. Evaluating whether a reasonable patient might have opted for a different treatment plan were the risk disclosed is also important to deciding whether you have a case.