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Dr Roth Is a General Practitioner in Rural Ontario Who

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Dr. Roth is a general practitioner in rural Ontario who has misdiagnosed cancer. A cancer specialist a year later properly diagnosed it. The patient sues Dr. Roth, claiming that if the cancer had been properly diagnosed a year earlier, it could have been cured or arrested. In determining whether Dr. Roth has breached the standard of care required, the court will apply the standard of:


A) The reasonable person.
B) The reasonable rural Ontario doctor
C) The most careful Canadian doctor.
D) The reasonable urban doctor
E) The average cancer specialist.

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