Recent Canadian Negligence Decisions Relating to Prenatal Care: Implications for Physicians’ Screening Practices
This article summarizes several Canadian court decisions from 2015 onward stemming from wrongful birth and wrongful life litigation. Plaintiff success often turns on whether causation is established, on a balance of probabilities, between a physician’s breach of standard of care and the harm to the...
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Programmes de bioéthique, École de santé publique de l'Université de Montréal
2023-06-01
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| Series: | Canadian Journal of Bioethics |
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| Online Access: | https://cjb-rcb.ca/index.php/cjb-rcb/article/view/622 |