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- Title: Martha S. Hamil v. H. Woodrow Bashline
- Author : Supreme Court of South Dakota
- Release Date : January 05, 1978
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 70 KB
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The present appeal involves the degree of certainty required of expert medical testimony to establish, in a medical malpractice case, the causal relation between the harm suffered by a plaintiff-patient and the alleged negligence of a doctor or hospital in failing properly to diagnose and treat the plaintiffs condition in a manner which might have prevented the harm. We believe that such causation may be founded upon expert opinion testimony to the effect that defendant failed to exercise reasonable care in performing an undertaking to render services to a patient which the defendant should recognize as necessary for the others protection, that this failure increased the risk of physical harm to the patient, and that such harm did in fact result. Because the jury was not properly charged as to this standard, a new trial will be required.