Whether a health care practitioner was negligent or simply exercised error in judgment?
Ontario, Canada
The following excerpt is from Ghiassi v. Singh, 2017 ONSC 6541 (CanLII):
Whether or not a health care practitioner was negligent or simply exercised an error in judgment will be determined on a case by case basis having regard to the particular facts in each case (see Bafaro v. Dowd, [2008] O.J. No 3474 at para. 28 (Sup. Ct.)).
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