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Barnett v Chelsea & Kensington Hospital Management Committee [1969] 1 QB 4282: A night watchman attended the casualty department of a hospital with claims of vomiting and stomach pains. The doctor failed to examine him but instructed one of the nurses to send him to his GP. In the event, he died of arsenic poisoning. It was accepted that the doctor had been negligent; the question for the court was whether this negligence actually caused the death. Utilising the ‘but for’ test the court held it had not. [reasoning]. Unfortunately, the patient had arrived at the hospital too late for any antidote to take effect. The defendant was, therefore, not liable (despite the hospital admitting the existence of a duty and that such a duty had been breached by the doctor).
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The man would have died anyway, regardless of any examination by the doctor

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#clinical-negligence #negligence #tort
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Barnett v Chelsea & Kensington Hospital Management Committee [1969] 1 QB 4282: A night watchman attended the casualty department of a hospital with claims of vomiting and stomach pains. The doctor failed to examine him but instructed one of the nurses to send him to his GP. In the event, he died of arsenic poisoning. It was accepted that the doctor had been negligent; the question for the court was whether this negligence actually caused the death. Utilising the ‘but for’ test the court held it had not. [reasoning]. Unfortunately, the patient had arrived at the hospital too late for any antidote to take effect. The defendant was, therefore, not liable (despite the hospital admitting the existence of a duty and that such a duty had been breached by the doctor).
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#clinical-negligence #negligence #tort
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Barnett v Chelsea & Kensington Hospital Management Committee [1969] 1 QB 4282: A night watchman attended the casualty department of a hospital with claims of vomiting and stomach pains. The doctor failed to examine him but instructed one of the nurses to send him to his GP. In the event, he died of arsenic poisoning. It was accepted that the doctor had been negligent; the question for the court was whether this negligence actually caused the death. Utilising the ‘but for’ test the court held it had not. [reasoning]. Unfortunately, the patient had arrived at the hospital too late for any antidote to take effect. The defendant was, therefore, not liable (despite the hospital admitting the existence of a duty and that such a duty had been breached by the doctor).
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The man would have died anyway, regardless of any examination by the doctor
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his GP. In the event, he died of arsenic poisoning. It was accepted that the doctor had been negligent; the question for the court was whether this negligence actually caused the death. Utilising the ‘but for’ test the court held it had not. <span>The man would have died anyway, regardless of any examination by the doctor. Unfortunately, the patient had arrived at the hospital too late for any antidote to take effect. The defendant was, therefore, not liable (despite the hospital admitting the existence

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