An act of medical negligence happens when a healthcare professional performs outside the generally accepted or legally mandated standards of care. This could mean prescribing medicine for off-label use, giving inadequate aftercare instructions compared to others in their practice area, or simply not paying attention to things they should. Medical negligence can also occur through failure to act when most other caregivers would choose to give a certain treatment or intervention (like oxygen or CPR), and injury or wrongful death results because one care provider did not follow those standards of care. Statistics show that around 250,000 people are killed by medical errors every year.
Some common forms of medical malpractice are:
-Failure to diagnose, including failure to order tests
-Failure to consult with another doctor if specialty insight is needed
-Premature discharge from the emergency department
-Failure to review medical records
-Not using an interpreter to communicate adequately with family, leading to the patient’s injury or death
-Failure to address abnormal results or make a new diagnosis based on new information
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