Shilkret v. Annapolis Emergency Hospital Ass'n

How courts have described this case

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• reviewing rationales for locality rules and a national standard of medical care, and concluding that “justification for the locality rules no longer exists”
• “a hospital is required to use that degree of care and skill which is expected of a reasonably competent hospital in the same or similar circumstances.”
• “a physician is under a duty to use that degree of care and skill which is expected of a reasonably competent practitioner in the same class to which he belongs, acting in the same or similar circumstances.”
• rejection of “strict locality rule” regarding standard of care
• the doctor-patient relationship gives rise to a duty on the part of the doctor “to use that degree of care and skill which is expected of a reasonably competent practitioner in the same class to which [the doctor] belongs, acting in the same or similar circumstances”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).