Dr. Roth is a general practitioner in rural Ontario who has misdiagnosed cancer. A cancer specialist a year later properly diagnosed it. The patient sues Dr

Roth, claiming that if the cancer had been properly diagnosed a year earlier, it could have been cured or arrested. In determining whether Dr. Roth has breached the standard of care required, the court will apply the standard of:

A) The reasonable person.
B) The reasonable rural Ontario doctor
C) The most careful Canadian doctor.
D) The reasonable urban doctor
E) The average cancer specialist.

B