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2. Medical malpractice - Wikipedia

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   In common law jurisdictions, medical malpractice liability is normally based on the tort of negligence. [3]Although the law of medical malpractice differs significantly between nations, as a broad general rule liability follows when a health care practitioner does not show a fair, reasonable and competent degree of skill when providing medical care to a patient. [3]

3. Medical malpractice in the United States - Wikipedia

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   Likewise, damage can occur without negligence, for example, when someone dies from a fatal disease. In cases involving suicide, physicians and particularly psychiatrists may be to a different standard than other defendants in a tort claim. In most tort cases, suicide is legally viewed as an act which terminates a chain of causality.

4. Bolam v Friern Hospital Management Committee - Wikipedia

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   Bolam v Friern Hospital Management Committee [1957] 1 WLR 582 is an English tort law case that lays down the typical rule for assessing the appropriate standard of reasonable care in negligence cases involving skilled professionals such as doctors. This rule is known as the Bolam test, and states that if a doctor reaches the standard of a ...

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   The nursing home has been investigated by the state because of negligence complaints, according to the Southern California News Group, which first reported on the probe. "We fully cooperated with ...

6. Woman’s sterilization was ‘gross negligence.’ Now California ...

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   In addition to the revocation of his license to practice medicine and surgery, the board is seeking $23,515 from Nelson for the cost of investigating the case. Show comments Advertisement

7. List of medical ethics cases - Wikipedia

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   None of the patients were told about the experiment, nor did the doctors ask for their consent. See Eileen Welsome's book The Plutonium Files. [10] Doctors' Trial: United States 1946 German medical doctors went on criminal trial for Nazi human experimentation. See The Years of Extermination. Guatemala syphilis experiments: U.S./ Guatemala 1946–48