2011 Oregon Revised Statutes
ORS Volume 15, Chapters 670 - 704
ORS Chapter 677
677.095 Duty of care; legal issues not precluded by investigation or administrative proceeding.
(1) A physician or podiatric physician and surgeon licensed to practice medicine or podiatry by the Oregon Medical Board has the duty to use that degree of care, skill and diligence that is used by ordinarily careful physicians or podiatric physicians and surgeons in the same or similar circumstances in the community of the physician or podiatric physician and surgeon or a similar community.
(2) In any suit, action or arbitration seeking damages for professional liability from a health care provider, no issue shall be precluded on the basis of a default, stipulation, agreement or any other outcome at any stage of an investigation or an administrative proceeding, including but not limited to a final order. [1975 c.796 10d; 1983 c.486 7; 1995 c.684 2; 1997 c.792 19]
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