What is the standard of a physician’s actions in a medical malpractice case?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from McLellan v. Shirley, 2015 BCSC 1930 (CanLII):
A physician’s actions are based on the standard of an ordinary average physician under similar circumstances: ter Neuzen v. Korn, 1995 CanLII 72 (SCC), [1995] 3 S.C.R. 674 [Korn], at paras. 33 - 34.
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