A-dee-A-dee
when a doctor or other health care facility/person is, well, negligent.
Ruth S
Medical negligence is when - say you told the guy you have been having this problem for ages, and he doesn't do ANYTHING about it! Taking your pulse, temperature and listening to your heart is supposed to be routine so that doesn't count. Then you have surgery, and the idiot leaves a swap or tool inside of you! Now THAT is negligence!!
Eric
Medical negligence is when the medical provider
1) owes the patient a duty to perform to the standard of care of that medical profession or medical procedure and
2) the medical provider breaches that duty of care by failing to meet the standard of care and
3) the medical provider's care is a proximate cause of the patient's harm or damages, and finally
4) the patient has indeed suffered harm
If you have all four elements, you have medical negligence.
Mickey Serene
medical negligence refers not only to the negligence of doctors but to all the related medical professionals such as nurses, dentists, pharmacists and physiotherapists. The basic litigation required for all these claims is the same; the main difference lies in establishing whether a particular professional duty of care has been breached.
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