Durrant v Burke

(1993) 4 Med LR 258

QUEEN'S BENCH DIVISION

and Honour Judge FALLON

General practitioner — Negligence — Diagnosis and treatment — Hypernatraemic dehydration — Infant — Duty of care — General practitioner — Infant — Patient — Whether general practitioner was under duty of care to visit patient even though he had not been asked to by patient's mother — Causation — Dehydration — Whether failure by general practitioner to make second visit to infant even though he had not been asked to by patient's mother was causative of patient's brain damage — Standard of care — General practitioner — Diagnosis — Whether general practitioner failed to adhere to skills expected of ordinary skilled general practitioner