Assertion: sard's testimony | /r/HasProperty | patient desired sterilization
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text: Where undisputed testimony was that patient desired sterilization because she feared subsequent pregnancy might endanger her health as well as her family's financial security, and this evidence was substantiated by the physician's own opinion of patient's condition, the Court, applying an objective test of proximate causation, held that jury could have concluded that effectiveness of sterilization was so important to a reasonably prudent person in patient's position that the failure of physician to disclose material data about risks of failure and more efficient alternative methods induced appellant to consent to the operation, while she would not have done so had adequate disclosure been made.