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Bolam is dead. Long live Bolam!

As a doctor transferring from medicine to law 25 years ago, I was struck by the illogicality of the Bolam test, in that it seemed to me that it couldn’t logically be applied to many circumstances of medical negligence. The most obvious issue to me, then and now, is an allegation that a surgeon negligently […]