According to the American Bar Association, "Medical malpractice is negligence committed by a professional health care provider-doctor, nurse, dentist, technician, hospital or hospital worker-whose performance of duties deviates from the standard practice of those with similar training and experience, which is resulted in damage to a patient or patients ."
negligence is not carelessness as much as it is contrary to the diligence. Tough standards of competence, thoroughness and continuing education based on all medical workers, who do not live up to that duty results in damage to the patients
.What does it mean to you? If your injuries come from poor health care worker actions (intentional or not), you have a personal injury, that allows you to recover money damages from the person or persons responsible for the mistake.
Many types of damage are called medical malpractice. Some of the May sound a little creepy, but it all happens from time to time, and even then, this is an incomplete list of features:
* wrongful death - death caused by the wrongful action or inaction during the treatment or surgery. In criminal law, it would be murder or manslaughter, punishable by imprisonment. Punishment for wrongful death is financial: wrongdoer must pay cash compensation to relatives of the deceased.
* Improper installation or use of medical devices (casts, splints, braces, retainers, and even artificial limbs, which can lead to pain, or even physical deformities)
* The manuscript errors (on the patient charts and recipes, and lead to the wrong dose, wrong medication, unnecessary or incorrect tests or surgical errors)
* brain injuries (temporary or permanent, mild or severe, from surgery or an accident such as the patient is dropped off at Gurney)
* Burns (from the improper use of chemicals in the skin to peel up a spill of chemicals or drugs to the patient's body)
* spinal cord injury (the result of improper care in hospital, in surgery, or nursing home)
* Birth trauma injury (to mother or child - incompetent surgery, improper use of forceps)
* Delivery Room Errors (with medication for the mother or child, dropping a child, improper treatment or delay the mothers after delivery problem)
There are less obvious reasons for medical malpractice, too. Not every case is based on physician abuse scalpel. Sometimes, the wrong behavior comes to other people and places, in what is called latent errors. It can occur in the range of normal duties of medical staff, from nurses stocking drugs and supplies for physicians develop treatment plans obsolete, because they have not kept up to current medical practice.
...actions of years past can affect current patient - treatment plans that were conceived and performed irregularly years before it could gain at the expense of patients now. Allowing expired medications remain available for prescription, dosing is also a reckless past actions that could harm the patient now.
Another less obvious reason is fear. New medical staff are more likely to misunderstand their responsibilities than their more experienced colleagues. They are also more likely to be afraid to report misconduct to a senior staff member, even a doctor. Not reporting the error is medical malpractice.
All medical personnel are owed a duty of care - to act for you according to the standard far above those of your neighbor or family member. They should be constantly educated, deliberate and thorough in his work, and they should listen and pay attention to you, the patient.
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.Please Note: This article is not intended as legal advice. Please consult an attorney before making any important decisions regarding the lawsuit.
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