MISS FELICIA OSAGIEDE OJO V. DR. GHARORO UNIVERSITY OF BENIN TEACHING HOSPITAL MANAGEMENT BOARD DR. S. A. EJIDE

TOBI JSC (Delivering the Lead Judgment): This appeal has to do with the management of a patient by medical practitioners. The appellant is that patient. She is Miss Felicia Ojo. I have omitted her middle name.

I hope no harm is done. Although the 1st and 3rd respondents are the medical practitioners involved in this appeal, the 3rd respondent was more in it. The common and market-place name for medical practitioner is doctor. That is the name used in identifying the 1st and 3rd respondents in the proceedings. Doctors are easy to locate or identify in hospital premises. They usually wear lab coats and stethoscopes to match. Patients are their clientele. Let me leave the parenthesis and come to the real matter. It was a surgical operation undertaken by the 3rd respondent, Dr. S. A. Ejide , who at the material time was a senior registrar. The doctors gave professional name to the operation. It is a gynaecological surgical operation. That is a big one. The 1st respondent so calls it and …