Seats v. Lowry’s Empirical Analysis

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1. “In many instances there can be no fixed rule by which to determine the duty of a physician, and he must often use his own best judgment and act accordingly. - By reason of that fact, the law will not hold a physician guilty of negligence, even though his judgment may later prove erroneous in a given case, unless it be shown that the course pursued was clearly against the course recognized as correct by the profession generally and the specialty practiced by the defendant physician as it existed in ... similar communities.”

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