Is a physician required to possess and use that reasonable degree of learning and skill ordinarily possessed by practitioners in similar communities in similar circumstances?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Shannahan v. Johnson, 2010 BCSC 700 (CanLII):
A physician is required to possess and use that reasonable degree of learning and skill ordinarily possessed by practitioners in similar communities in similar circumstances. Liability in negligence is founded by failing to meet the appropriate standard, which in a professional negligence claim is the average knowledge and skill of a physician’s practitioner peers: Wilson v. Swanson, 1956 CanLII 1 (SCC), [1956] S.C.R. 804.
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