Current and Emerging Issues in Medical Malpractice
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First, an update will be provided with respect to the duty of care owed by physicians to an unborn child, and the ability of that child, once born alive, to claim in negligence against that physician. This update will focus on the Court of Appeal’s 2008 decisions in Bovingdon v. Hergott and Paxton v. Ramji, and the decision of the Court of Appeal in Liebig v. Guelph General Hospital released in June of 2010.
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