53 Or. App. 710 - Roach v. Hockey’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently January 2001
6 state decisions
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“choice of several alternatives, equally acceptable medically”); Roach v. Hockey, 53 Or.App. 710 , 634 P.2d 249, 252 (1981) (approving "mistake of judgment” instruction and stating that "it is clear that a physician is not liable for an error of judgment where there is a reasonable doubt or a difference of opinion as to the nature of the patient’s condition or the proper course of treatment and the physician acts with reasonable care and skill in exercising that judgment”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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