What is the liability of a doctor who performs an operation?
Manitoba, Canada
The following excerpt is from Rybak v. Plastic Surgery Associates of Winnipeg, 1999 CanLII 14288 (MB QB):
The doctor is not a guarantor of the operation which he performs. Even if the results are not everything the patient hoped for, there is no liability unless there is some evidence of negligence. (See Wilcox v. Cavan (1974), 1974 CanLII 188 (SCC), 50 D.L.R. (3d) 687 (S.C.C.) at p. 696.)
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