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failure
to diagnose - misdiagnosis - delayed diagnosis - failure to treat - delayed
treatment, incompetent treatment - unauthorized treatment - lack of consent
to treat - lack of informed consent - birth trauma - birth injury - cerebral
palsy - birth injuries - hospital negligence - nursing negligence -
pharmaceutical error - defective medicine - failure to disclose or warn of
possible side effects - medical error - surgical error - medical mistakes -
surgical mistakes - chiropractor error - chiropractic mistake - anesthesia
error - prescription error - medication mistake - wrong medication
prescribed - wrong prescription dosage - overdose of medication - failure
to perform appropriate testing - misinterpretation of lab results - failure
to review lab results - failure to take preventative measures - unethical
treatment - abusive treatment - patient abuse
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Medical Malpractice:
an act or omission by a health care provider which deviates from accepted
standards of practice in the medical community and which causes injury to
the patient. Simply put, medical malpractice is professional negligence (by
a healthcare provider) that causes an injury. In the United States and other
countries, a specific medical malpractice law has developed. In English law,
the issue of liability is a subset of professional negligence where, under
the Bolam Test, a doctor will be liable unless shown to have acted in
accordance with a reasonable body of medical opinion.
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