The Plaintiff, Carmen Doobay, presented at hospital with, what she alleged, were signs and symptoms of a stroke. She claimed that the treating emergency professionals, a nurse and a physician, failed to recognize those signs and symptoms…
A plaintiff is obliged to exercise reasonable diligence to secure the name of a doctor who may have participated in negligent care to satisfy the requirements of the Limitations Act.
This motion considered the admissibility of a defendant ER physician’s standard of care report that was served mid-trial after a preliminary finding was made regarding the scope of the expert’s opinion in relation to his area of practice.
The use of average wait-times as a defence to causation in a case involving a GP’s failure to refer.
Warlow v. Dr. Sadeghi is a case where the Plaintiff was unsuccessful at an informed consent trial. The modified objective test was applied.
It’s no surprise that thousands of people die from medical errors every year. But a new study from the Journal of Patient Safety reveals that as many as 440,000 patients die each year in the US from preventable medical errors. That means that medical errors are now the third leading cause of death in the US, exceeded only by cancer and heart disease. The article …
