Specialists vs Generalists: Finding Common Knowledge Among Reasonable Physicians in Malpractice Trials

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Speaker: Patrick Garon-Sayegh, SJD candidate, Faculty of Law, University of Toronto About this Seminar: The legal standard for medical malpractice tells us very little on its own. To make a specific malpractice claim, the legal standard must be suffused with a case’s particulars and the opinion of medical experts. Thus, medical experts are often the […]

Medical Negligence in Gynecological Surgery

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Speaker: Nicholas Leyland, BASc, MD, MHCM, FRCSC, Professor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Faculty of Health Sciences, Fellowship Director, Advanced Pelvic, Obstetrical and Minimally Invasive Gynecologic Surgery, McMaster University Seminar Objectives: Understand the elements of medical negligence. Medical errors, negligence, and litigation

. Informed consent: What does this entail?

 Examples from completed Canadian Medical Protective Association […]