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... may require different information and different amounts of information relating to the risk involved, in order to enable them to decide whether to undergo the operation in the first place. As emphasised by Lord Templeman in Sideway v. Board of Governors, whilst one patient will need all the information available to enable him/her to make his decision, another patient will find this amount of information confusing or alarming. Professional Standard and Reasonable Test The legal test applied to the standard of care afforded to a patient by his doctor has historically been the professional standard or the "bolam test" after it was described by McNair, J in the case of Bolam v. Friern Hospital Management Board [1957]. The essential dictum from this case was that: ".....a doctor is not negligent of he acts in accordance with a practice accepted at the time as proper by a responsible body of medical opinion." ...