CA · jury_instructions
CACI No. 502
Standard of Care for Medical Specialists
[A/An] [insert type of medical specialist] is negligent if [he/she/ nonbinary
pronoun] fails to use the level of skill, knowledge, and care in diagnosis
and treatment that other reasonably careful [insert type of medical
specialists] would use in similar circumstances. This level of skill,
knowledge, and care is sometimes referred to as “the standard of care.”
[Y ou must determine the level of skill, knowledge, and care that other
reasonably careful [insert type of medical specialists] would use in similar
circumstances based only on the testimony of the expert witnesses
[including [name of defendant]] who have testified in this case.]
New September 2003; Revised October 2004
Provenance
- Source
- courts.ca.gov
- Retrieved
- 2026-08-20
- Edition
- caci-2025
- Content hash
4ba2d1806ec551e6e0a1659abad56cae4cb07f67b4ca426aaee8aa6dbda10bae
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