How have courts treated medical malpractice cases in the context of malpractice?

British Columbia, Canada


The following excerpt is from Palmer v. City of Burnaby, 2006 BCSC 165 (CanLII):

Other cases cited by the defendant on this point, such as (Scholton v. Chemainus Health Care Centre, [1995] 29 M.P.L.R. (2d) 249), can be distinguished on the same basis.

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