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C Neff

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PubMed1992

Attitudes of physicians to medical malpractice litigation in Canada.

This article reports the results of a survey of the attitudes of medical practitioners in the Sudbury and Manitoulin Health District of Northern Ontario with respect to their experience of litigation alleging medical malpractice. The survey is part of a research project, funded by the Foundation for Legal Research, Montreal, investigating the extent to which the very high incidence of medical litigation in the United States of America is likely to spread to Canada.

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PubMed1991

Res ipsa loquitur in Canadian medical malpractice cases 1975-1988.

There is a perception in some quarters that courts too often, in the interest of compensating victims, find the medical profession at fault for 'failed medical care' which does not amount to negligence. If this were true, judges would likely make liberal use of the evidentiary rules res ipsa loquitur. However, a study of Canadian medical malpractice cases from 1975 to 1988 indicates that this is not the case and that judges on the contrary reject such a liberal use of the rule. Res ipsa loquitur was pleaded in only 37 of 142 cases, it was applied in only 14 of these cases, and the defendant was found liable in only ten of the cases in which it was applied. Furthermore, there is little evidence in these cases that judges are as a matter of policy trying to find legal rules to justify compensating more victims of medical misadventure, regardless of fault. On the contrary, judges not infrequently express sympathy for the plaintiff but nevertheless find for the defendant.

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PubMed1990

Sonographic pseudokidney after nephrectomy.

When interpreting renal sonograms, one should be aware of the possibility of mistaking fat and scarring in the renal fossa for a normal kidney in a patient with a history of prior nephrectomy. When in doubt, the ultrasound findings should be confirmed with a CT scan.

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