What is the test for determining whether a physician was a reasonable, competent individual?
Ontario, Canada
The following excerpt is from Stevenhaagen (Estate) v. Kingston General Hospital, 2020 ONSC 5020 (CanLII):
Accordingly, the defendant bears the onus of showing, on a balance of probabilities, that the decisions and actions of the defendants were not those which would have been taken by a reasonable, competent physician in the circumstances: Wilson v. Swanson, 1956 CanLII 1 (SCC), [1956] S.C.R. 804, at pp. 811-812.
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