Is a physician required to meet a standard of perfection?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Ediger v. Johnston, 2009 BCSC 386 (CanLII):
A physician is not required to meet a standard of perfection. If he or she followed a generally accepted or standard practice of his or her peers, then there will normally have been no negligence: It is generally accepted that when a doctor acts in accordance with a recognized and respectable practice of the profession, he or she will not be found to be negligent. This is because courts do not ordinarily have the expertise to tell professionals that they are not behaving appropriately in their field. In a sense, the medical profession as a whole is assumed to have adopted procedures which are in the best interests of patients and are not inherently negligent. (ter Neuzen v. Korn, at para. 38)
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