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2. Medical Negligence: Legal Definition & Examples - Forbes

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   The medical negligence is the direct cause of harm; The patient suffers damages that they can be compensated for; If a doctor misdiagnosed the flu, this could be medical negligence.

3. Medical Malpractice: Examples, Criteria, Steps to File

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   Medical malpractice is a form of professional negligence that can lead to patient injury or death. Because this type of negligence can lead to severe outcomes, it is considered a serious offense in the eyes of the law in the United States.

4. Medical Malpractice - American Bar Association

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   Medical malpractice is negligence committed by a professional health care provider—a doctor, nurse, dentist, technician, hospital or hospital worker—whose performance of duties departs from a standard of practice of those with similar training and experience, resulting in harm to a patient or patients.

5. Medical Negligence: The Law Explained - AllLaw

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   Medical negligence occurs when a health care professional fails to treat a patient in line with the accepted medical standard of care. If the patient's harm wasn't a foreseeable result of the medical negligence, it'll be tough for the patient to establish malpractice.

6. Medical malpractice: What does it involve? - Medical News Today

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   Medical malpractice refers to professional negligence by a health care provider that leads to substandard treatment, resulting in injury to a patient.

7. Medical Malpractice - Definition, Examples, Cases, Processes

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   Medical malpractice is a legal term that refers to negligence by an act, or failure to act, by a doctor or other healthcare provider. When a medical professional’s treatment fails to meet the accepted standard within the medical community, and it causes injury to, or death of, the patient, it is considered to be malpractice.

8. Duty of Care & Medical Negligence: Your Rights, Their ...

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   Essentially, it means that they’re required to treat you with reasonable skill, care, and diligence. Understanding Your Doctor’s Duty of Care and Professional Obligations.

9. Medical Negligence: Definition, Examples and Remedies ...

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   When a doctor, other medical personnel, or a healthcare institution fails to uphold the standard of care necessary when supervising, diagnosing, or treating a patient, an injury results. This is known as medical malpractice.

10. What Is Medical Malpractice? - WebMD

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    Your doctor’s neglect caused harm, injury or death. You suffered loss (pain and suffering, or financial, or all of these). Who Governs Malpractice Claims? States usually have authority...