What standard of care must a doctor adhere to?
Alberta, Canada
The following excerpt is from Waap v. Alberta, 2008 ABQB 544 (CanLII):
The standard of care to which a doctor must adhere is based on the state of the medical knowledge available at the time the doctor exercised his judgment. The doctor's conduct should only be judged in relation to that knowledge: ter Neuzen v. Korn, 1995 CanLII 72 (SCC), [1995] 3 S.C.R. 674 at para. 34; Lapointe v. Hopital Le Gardeur, 1992 CanLII 119 (SCC), [1992] 1 S.C.R. 351 at pp. 361-363.
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