At first, I thought this was a news story from America, but no. An Australian man in Melbourne viewed his wife’s caesarean section, performed at a hospital. Then, he alleged, he developed a mental illness, so he sued the hospital for $ 1 billion. He represented himself, and lost.
I would imagine that any hospital today would get such viewers of C-sections to sign up all of the necessary paper work and disclaimers and what-not to deal with potential cases like this one. If this happened in this case I do not know.
“An Australian man accused a hospital in Melbourne of causing him to develop a "psychotic illness" after he watched his wife's cesarean section.
Anil Koppula attempted to sue the Royal Women's Hospital for allowing him to witness his child's birth via C-section back in January 2018. As a result, he sued the hospital for A$1 billion, which equals about $643 million in U.S. dollars, according to 7News.
Though the procedure was a success, Koppula claims that the hospital failed in its obligation to care for him by letting him witness the procedure. He claims the hospital "encouraged" and "permitted" him to watch the operation.
Consequently, he said the result of seeing his wife's organs and blood caused him to have a mental illness. The National Health Service defines a cesarean section as a generally common procedure in which a surgeon delivers a baby "through a cut made in your tummy and womb."
Koppula apparently filed the lawsuit several years after the operation had taken place. He claimed that he was owed damages because of the life-changing, psychological impairment that he allegedly developed following the procedure.
He went on to suggest that the "psychotic illness" he developed led to a "breakdown of his marriage," per the report.
Furthermore, Koppula decided to represent himself in court, where Justice James Gorton dismissed the suit and considered the claim an "abuse of process."
During the trial proceedings, Koppula underwent a psychological evaluation, and it was concluded that the purported illness he suffered was insufficient.”