Like any lawsuit based on negligence, “the existence of duty running from the defendant to the plaintiff is prerequisite to finding of malpractice liability. When there is physician-patient relationship, duty of due care is owed to the patient. Once physician undertakes to treat patient, that physician owes the patient duty to act with the required standard of skill and care. Therefore, for 100 years in Minnesota, physician has had legal duty of care based on the foreseeablity of harm.
Minnesota Medical Malpractice
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