How are standards of care measured against existing knowledge in the medical profession at the time of the alleged negligence?
Ontario, Canada
The following excerpt is from Harbord v. Dupont, 2020 ONSC 2003 (CanLII):
Standards of care are measured against existing knowledge in the medical profession at the time of the alleged negligence: see ter Neuzen v. Korn, 1995 CanLII 72 (SCC), [1995] 3 S.C.R. 674, at para. 47.
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