What are some common types of medical malpractice?
Medical malpractice do not only relate to surgical errors as the common perception is but also include:
misdiagnosis,failure to diagnose or delayed diagnosis, anesthetic error, medication errors, adverse reactions to drugs or procedures and wrong treatments.
An individual may be subject to various forms of medical malpractice whenever he or she seeks the care of a medical provider. Malpractice can even be something as simple as failing to put the rails of a hospital bed in the upright position, to something as complex as improperly performing open heart surgery. A related issue in these cases is whether a patient has provided informed consent to a particular treatment. Only if a patient has been informed of the details, risks, benefits and alternatives to a recommended form of care can he or she rightly be said to have given informed consent.
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