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This article discusses examples of medical malpractice, who’s responsible, and how to initiate a medical malpractice case if it happens to you.
Noun. Performance by a physician, attorney, or other professional that falls below the normal standard of care or service for a patient or client, especially when this failure causes injury or loss.
Medical malpractice occurs when a healthcare professional provides you with care that does not meet the proper standard of care. Both acts and omissions can count as malpractice.
Medical malpractice occurs when a healthcare professional neglects to provide appropriate treatment, take appropriate action, or gives substandard treatment that causes harm, injury, or death to...
What is medical malpractice? Medical malpractice is negligence committed by a professional health care provider—a doctor, nurse, dentist, technician, hospital or hospital worker—whose performance of duties departs from a standard of practice of those with similar training and experience, resulting in harm to a patient or patients.
Medical malpractice occurs when a hospital, doctor or other health care professional, through a negligent act or omission, causes an injury to a patient. The negligence might be the result of errors in diagnosis, treatment, aftercare or health management.
A simple mistake or error in diagnosis or error during a procedure does not define medical malpractice. To successfully establish a medical malpractice lawsuit, the plaintiff (patient) must prove 4 elements to prevail: causation, a duty to the patient, negligence or breach of duty (derelict), and damages. [1] [2] [3] [4]
At its most basic, malpractice is the failure of a healthcare professional, such as a doctor with malpractice insurance, to provide proper service through either ignorance, negligence, or criminal intent. It can include a wide range of scenarios: wrongful death, birth injuries, heart attack misdiagnosis, surgical errors, misdiagnosis, failure ...