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" Kentucky court and hold that a physician is under a duty to use that degree of care and skill which is expected of a reasonably competent practitioner in the same class to which he belongs, acting in the same or similar circumstances. "
Northeast Corridor Improvement Project: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of ... - Page 296
by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations. Government Activities and Transportation Subcommittee - 1978
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The State of Wisconsin Blue Book

Elections - 1975 - 922 pages
...an action for negligence if he fails to exercise that degree of care and skill which is exercised by the average practitioner in the class to which he...belongs, acting in the same or similar circumstances." (pages 283-284) Short-land Zoning In what some legal commentators called a "landmark" decision, the...
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National Dam Inspection Act Amendments: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on ...

United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Environment and Public Works. Subcommittee on Water Resources - Dam safety - 1978 - 348 pages
...particularly in the case of architects and engineers, "professionally negligent acts, errors or omissions." The legal standard for determining professional negligence...belongs, acting in the same or similar circumstances. Initially, the most publicized and dramatic professional liability claims involved the medical profession,...
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Medical Necessity, from Theory to Practice: Hearing of the ..., Volume 4

United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions - Political Science - 1999 - 96 pages
...that degree of care and skill which is expected of a reasonable competent practitioner in the same class to which he belongs, acting in the same or similar circumstances. Under this standard, advances in the profession, availability of facilities, specialization or general...
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Medical Necessity, from Theory to Practice: Hearing of the ..., Volume 4

United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions - Political Science - 1999 - 106 pages
...that degree of care and skill which is expected of a reasonable competent practitioner in the same class to which he belongs, acting in the same or similar circumstances. Under this standard, advances in the profession, availability of facilities, specialization or general...
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Law and Bioethics: An Introduction

Jerry Menikoff - Law - 2002 - 520 pages
...ophthalmologists which would require the defendants to comply with a higher duty of care than "that degree of care and skill which is expected of the average practitioner...belongs, acting in the same or similar circumstances." The issue is whether the defendants' compliance with the standard of the profession of ophthalmology,...
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Unhealed Wounds: Medical Malpractice in the Twentieth Century

Neal C. Hogan - Physicians - 2003 - 282 pages
...should be subject to liability, in an action for negligence, if he fails to exercise that degree of care and skill which is expected of the average practitioner...belongs, acting in the same or similar circumstances. The standard of care is that established in an area coextensive with the medical and professional means...
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