CA · jury_instructions
CACI No. 508
Duty to Refer to a Specialist
If a reasonably careful [insert type of medical practitioner] in the same
situation would have referred [name of patient] to a [insert type of medical
specialist], then [name of defendant] was negligent if [he/she/ nonbinary
pronoun] did not do so.
However, if [name of defendant] treated [name of patient] with as much
skill and care as a reasonable [insert type of medical specialist] would
have, then [name of defendant] was not negligent.
New September 2003
Provenance
- Source
- courts.ca.gov
- Retrieved
- 2026-08-20
- Edition
- caci-2025
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