Court Opinion

ID: 9883754
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-10-06 02:15:34.743554+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:48:30.088367
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NIERENGARTEN, Judge,
dissenting:
I respectfully dissent. Defendant was not as handicapped as the majority suggests. He was free to argue that in choosing one treatment over the other, the physician was using that “degree of skill and learning” which is normally possessed and used by physicians and, if he so does, cannot be blamed for a bad result.
The “honest error of judgment” instruction should be deleted from JIG II, 425 G-S. It invites a jury to conclude that a physician must commit a “dishonest error” or, by inference, a “bad faith error” before he is liable for negligent conduct. Negli*133gence has never been predicated on honest or dishonest behavior.