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402.16a (2) Emergency Medical Treatment - Jury Issue as to Application of F.S. 768.13(2)(b) - Issues Regarding Negligence [If you find that (claimant or decedent)'s [care] [treatment] was not being rendered under emergency circumstances,] the [next] issue for you to decide is whether [defendant] was negligent in (describe conduct in question); and, if so, whether that negligence was a legal cause of the [loss] [injury] [or] [damage] to (claimant, decedent or person for whose injury claim is made). "Negligence" is the failure to use reasonable care. Reasonable care on the part of a [hospital] [physician] is that level of care, skill and treatment which, in light of all relevant surrounding circumstances, is recognized as acceptable and appropriate by similar and reasonably careful [hospitals] [physicians]. Negligence on the part of a [hospital] [physician] is doing something that a reasonably careful [hospital] [physician] would not do under like circumstances or failing to do something that a reasonably careful [hospital] [physician] would do under like circumstances. If the greater weight of the evidence does not support this claim, then your verdict [on this claim] should be for (defendant). [However, if the greater weight of the evidence does support (claimant)'s claim on these issues, then your verdict [on this claim] should be for (claimant) and against (defendant).] [However, if the greater weight of the evidence does support (claimant)'s claim, then you should consider the defense(s) raised by (defendant).]