Included in the New York Pattern Jury Instructions as a potential addendum to the general medical malpractice charge, is a paragraph regarding errors of judgment by defendants. That paragraph reads:
A doctor is not liable for an error in judgment if (he, she) does what (he, she) decides is best after careful evaluation if it is a judgment that a reasonably prudent doctor could have made under the circumstances.[1]�
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