Law 3101A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter Standard of Care: Internal Medicine, Ureter, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

• School: Western University
• Department: Law
• Course: Law 3101A/B
• Professor: Robert Solomon

Document Summary

Chapter vii: standard of care and its breach not responsible for bulleted cases. Part 1: negligence in assessment and diagnosis, surgery and miscellaneous situations: assessment and diagnosis. Liable for sterilizing her contrary to provincial law: the plaintiff was awarded almost ,000 in damages for her wrongful institutionalization, confinement and sterilization. F (cm) v manitoba: do(cid:272)to(cid:396) (cid:373)isdiag(cid:374)osed the plai(cid:374)tiff as (cid:271)ei(cid:374)g (cid:858)(cid:396)eta(cid:396)ded(cid:859) at the age of (cid:1005)(cid:1013) (cid:373)o(cid:374)ths this resulted in the plaintiff never being adopted. However, the action was dismissed because it was initiated outside the limitation period. Brandcombe v. regina district health board aff(cid:859)d: the do(cid:272)to(cid:396) (cid:449)as held lia(cid:271)le (cid:449)as held lia(cid:271)le fo(cid:396) (cid:449)(cid:396)o(cid:374)gl(cid:455) diagnosing the patients as having a malignant tumor with one year to live. Armstrong v. centenary health center: the do(cid:272)to(cid:396)(cid:859)s failed to diag(cid:374)ose the patie(cid:374)t(cid:859)s ea(cid:396)l(cid:455) stage o(cid:448)a(cid:396)ia(cid:374) cancer was held not to be negligent because of the health appearance of her ovaries.