Medical Malpractice
Doctors, nurses and other health care providers spend a great deal of time learning how to treat a great variety of illnesses and physical maladies. As a group they are professionals dedicated to helping alleviate the ailments that can plague mankind. Unfortunately, health care providers can also make mistakes. When mistakes are made the effects can be devastating. In fact, according to the National Academy of Sciences, approximately 98,000 Americans die from "medical mistakes" each year.
Medical malpractice is a form of negligence involving a medical treatment provider. If someone is injured as a result of a treatment provider's digression from the standard of care, that provider may be liable for the injury that has occurred. The determination of whether a medical professional has met the standard of care is based on a comparison to other professionals in the same field and the same geographical region. In other words, what would a reasonably competent medical professional practicing in the same field as the defendant, and in the same area of the defendant, do under the circumstances that the defendant was facing with respect to care and treatment of the patient?
Medical malpractice does not occur every time there is a bad outcome from treatment. It is simply a duty to provide good care according to the accepted standards of the community and/or the accepted standards of a particular medical specialty. The law generally recognizes the practice of medicine as an "art" rather than as an exact science. Therefore, some latitude is given to practitioners with respect to the manner in which they choose to address the problems of specific patients.
If you or a loved one has suffered an injury, illness or death that you suspect was caused by a medical professional, call VanDerGinst Law at 1-866-843-7367 or click here for a FREE online case evaluation. The initial consultation is free of charge. If we agree to handle your injury case, we will work on a contingency fee basis, which means we get paid for our services only if, and when, there is a money recovery for you. In many cases a lawsuit must be filed before an applicable expiration date, known as a statute of limitations. So please call right away to ensure that you do not waive your right to possible compensation.
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| Thu, 03 May 2012 09:00:00 PDT Prescribing Pitfalls, Doctors Told To Be Careful, UK According to a study conducted by the General Medical Council (GMC), approximately 1 in 20 prescriptions GPs in the UK write contain an error. The researchers found that although doctors take prescribing seriously, improvements need to be made in order to lower the rate of prescription errors... Click here to read this Medical Malpractice news article. |
| Wed, 25 Apr 2012 13:00:00 PDT Debt Collectors Visiting Sick Patients In Hospital Imagine a debt collector visiting sick people who owe money, coming up to their bedsides in hospital, and you might think that this was a description of a new movie - it is not; it really does happen. Debt collectors, according to the Minnesota Attorney General, Lori Swanson, have been confronting debtors in emergency rooms and hospital wards... Click here to read this Medical Malpractice news article. |
| Thu, 05 Apr 2012 00:00:00 PDT Fake Cancer Drug Altuzan (Bevacizumab) Warning By FDA The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is warning doctors and other health care professionals that fake cancer drug, injectable Altuzan (bevacizumab), has entered the country. Bevacizumab is approved in the USA as Avastin, and sold by Genentech. Injectable Altuzan (400 mg/16 ml) is approved in Turkey, but not the United States, the FDA informs. The fake product has no active ingredient... Click here to read this Medical Malpractice news article. |
| Thu, 22 Mar 2012 00:00:00 PDT Sexual Misconduct Among Most Commonly Reported Online Violations Of Professionalism By Doctors Results of a survey published in a research letter in JAMA this week, reveal that sexual misconduct and prescribing without an established clinical relationship are among the most common ever reported online violations of professionalism by doctors in the US. For their survey, Dr S... Click here to read this Medical Malpractice news article. |
| Sat, 03 Mar 2012 00:00:00 PDT 84% Of Anesthesiologists Involved In Surgical Catastrophes According to results from a survey published in the March issue of Anesthesia & Analgesia, the official journal of the International Anesthesia Research Society (IARS), over 80% of anesthesiologists have been involved in a fatal or serious incident to a patient during a surgical procedure... Click here to read this Medical Malpractice news article. |
| Tue, 28 Feb 2012 03:00:00 PDT Physicians Mistakenly Believe That Poor People Sue More Often Contrary to the common perception among physicians that poor people sue doctors more frequently, Ramon L. Jimenez from the Monterey Orthopaedic and Sports Medicine Institute and his team demonstrate that socioeconomically disadvantaged patients, in fact, tend to sue physicians less often... Click here to read this Medical Malpractice news article. |
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