What is the standard of care required for a medical malpractice claim?
Ontario, Canada
The following excerpt is from Hillis v Meineri, 2017 ONSC 2845 (CanLII):
The standard of care is not a gold standard; rather, it is the average among similar peers. This is set out in Wilson v. Swanson, 1956 CanLII 1 (SCC), [1956] S.C.R. 804, at p. 817: The test of reasonable care applies in medical malpractice cases as in other cases of alleged negligence…[t]he medical man must possess and use that reasonable degree of learning and skill ordinarily possessed by practitioners in similar communities in similar cases...
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