Has Bolitho affected assessment of the appropriate standard of medical care?
The courts' use of the Bolam test has been criticized for giving the medical profession deferential treatment and making it easier to defend a minority opinion. This article asks whether the shift to the Bolitho principle has gone too far or not far enough.
Perera
Anthony
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University Hospital Llandough, Cardiff and Vale NHS Trust, Penarth.
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