McDANIEL v. HENDRIX

S90G1001.

260 Ga. 857 (1991)

401 S.E.2d 260

McDANIEL et al. v. HENDRIX et al.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

Decided February 28, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bedford, Kirschner & Venker, T. Jackson Bedford, Jr., Andrew R. Kirschner, Thomas J. Venker, E. Graydon Shuford & Associates, E. Graydon Shuford, for appellants.

Allen & Ballard, Hunter S. Allen, Jr., Dennis A. Elisco, Long, Weinberg, Ansley & Wheeler, Robert G. Tanner, for appellees.

Foy R. Devine, Frank J. Beltran, William S. Stone, Don C. Keenan, Charles W. Stephens, Samuel W. Oates, Jr., David William Boone, amici curiae.


BELL, Justice.

We granted certiorari in this case to consider two questions: First, what is the standard of care owed by a physician to a patient and how should that standard be articulated; and second, assuming a "general" rather than a "local" standard of care is controlling, did the plaintiffs' expert, either by affidavit or deposition, testify in effect that defendants' conduct violated a "general" as well as a "local' standard? We conclude, as has our Court of...

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