Medical Malpractice Information

Medical malpractice refers to the negligence of a doctor, nurse, hospital, or other medical professional, leading to personal injury or wrongful death of a patient.

Medical malpractice cases can be brought against medical professionals for any of the following reasons:

- Medical Negligence: Applies to doctors, surgeons and nurses, but it also applies equally to other forms of medical treatment including dentistry, opticians, psychiatrists, midwives and physiotherapists. Could range from a surgical mistake, wrong prescription, birth injury, wrong site surgery, misdiagnosis, or other type of error.

- Failure to diagnose or disclose diagnosis: This could mean not accurately diagnosing any type of illness, detecting the illness but not realizing the severity, not telling a patient of their illness, or diagnosing a patient with something that they don't have.

- Anesthesia Malpractice: Errors in administering general anesthesia can result in death, crippling and other serious complications. This could include inadequate anesthetic product labeling which leads to dosage errors, administering too little anesthetic, vaporizer leaks, intravenous infusion errors, and problems during a syringe swap.

- Medication errors: The most common errors where medication is concerned are the volume of dosage given to patients. Other possible medication errors include diagnostic or prescription error, incorrect dosage, equipment failure, infections, blood transfusion-related injuries, and misinterpretation of other medical orders.

- Surgical errors: This could include surgical instruments left inside patient after surgery, wrong surgical procedure, wrong-site, surgery, surgery unrelated to the patient's diagnosis, wrong-patient surgery, or damage from a planned surgery.

- Dental Malpractice: Negligence or poor quality of dental care performed by a dentist or dental professional such as, failure to properly detect an oral disease, improper use of dental utensils, installation of defective products, personal injury to oral cavity or surrounding bone and tissue, or unnecessary diagnosis resulting in collecting higher insurance compensation.

- Birth Injuries and defects: This could include brain injury, Cerebral palsy, Erb's palsy, neck spinal and shoulder injuries, and birth trauma.

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