What are the clinical records admissible in a medical malpractice trial without calling a doctor?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Seaman v. Crook, 2003 BCSC 464 (CanLII):
The plaintiff further states that the clinical records meet the requirement of necessity and are, therefore, admissible even without calling the doctor, because the doctor would have no independent memory of his treatment of the patient and would have to rely on his clinical records if called to testify (see: Ares v. Venner, supra).
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