Court Opinion

ID: 9883752
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-10-06 02:15:34.739622+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:48:30.087652
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FORSBERG, Judge,
dissenting:
I respectfully dissent. The trial court’s instruction is sufficient to state the standard of care applicable to physicians. I have found no cases holding that failure to give the “honest error of judgment instruction” is reversible error. In Sanders v. Boulevard Del., Inc., 277 Minn. 199, 203, 152 N.W.2d 132, 135 (1967), the court held that it is not error to refuse to give a negative instruction. The “honest error” of judgment instruction is unquestionably a negative one.
I would affirm the trial court.