What is a physician's duty to disclose risks to the public?
Ontario, Canada
The following excerpt is from Leblanc v. Hunt et al., 2011 ONSC 1333 (CanLII):
Physicians have a duty to conduct their practice, including the disclosure of risks, in accordance with the conduct of a prudent and diligent doctor in the same circumstances: see ter Neuzen v. Korn, 1995 CanLII 72 (SCC), [1995] 3 S.C.R. 674.
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