What is the test for "essential elements" in a medical malpractice case?

California, United States of America


The following excerpt is from People v. Jimenez, H039607 (Cal. App. 2014):

[Citation.] "The absence of an essential element in one instruction may be supplied by another or cured in light of the instructions as a whole." [Citation.]' [Citation.]" (People v. Bolin (1998) 18 Cal.4th 297, 328.)

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