Failure To Inform Medical Malpractice

Vanderbilt Law Review

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Assuming that the physician is qualified to treat the patient andhas gathered the appropriate information, a total failure to inform thepatient about the contemplated procedure will have no bearing on thephysician's technical performance once the procedure is begun. If …

Medical Malpractice - StatPearls - NCBI Bookshelf

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Step 1: Inform your medical malpractice insurance carrier or risk management division of your hospital. Take a deep breath, …

Lack of Informed Consent in Medical Malpractice …

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Updated: May 15th, 2018. Before performing any kind of planned medical procedure or going forward with a course of treatment, a doctor is legally obligated to …

Lack of Informed Consent - Can You Sue for Medical …

https://www.justia.com/injury/medical-malpractice/informed-consent/

Delay in Treatment: Failure to Contact Patient Leads to …

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Failing to contact a patient about abnormal test results that require follow up is a clear error that can result in a successful malpractice claim. The malpractice standard …

Failure to Diagnose | Standards of Care

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A medical malpractice case that cites failure to diagnose is when a patient claims that a doctor did not see the connection between symptoms and an illness. Failing to diagnose …

Failure to Refer | Standards of Care

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Failure to Refer. When a doctor does not refer a patient to a specialist for additional care, for more diagnostics, or for treatment that only another physician can …

Sample Hospital Medical Malpractice Complaint

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As a direct and proximate result of these failures, the Plaintiff suffered a physical injury to her body. All of these failures amounted to a breach of the applicable standard of medical …

Medical Malpractice | Standards of Care

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There are nearly endless examples of what constitutes medical malpractice, but there are some general types that are more common or that are more likely to occur: Failure to …

Failure to Communicate Test Results - The Tinker Law Firm

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Among the leading causes of medical misdiagnosis is a failure to communicate diagnostic test results. Communication of a diagnosis is arguably as important as the diagnosis itself. Patients deserve to know …