Medical Malpractice

Mistakes are committed in every aspects, even in high pressure and high stakes situation such as in medical field which is life of a patient is in line, which sounds worrying and it is. It should be taken lightly, even in it slightest form — prescribing medicines, it can still lead to bad consequences. It is called medical errors, it is a preventable occurrence which affects the at care individual negatively, it has array of variations such as misdiagnosis, wrong and/or delayed treatment, negligence, and other notions related to that.

In law of medicine, a single disease isn’t only restrained to one surgery or treatment but has many ways to deal with, it is true to its causes as well, cancer is one of those diseases. Cancer occurs when cells in the body grow uncontrollably abnormal manner, these rapid growth in cells are caused by multiple factors and develop various cases of cancers which has also different treatment as well as the name of the cancer itself. One cause to develop cancer is from occupational exposure of triggers which it commonly affect respiratory organs, liver, and the skin and its development hasten when talked about one’s personal habbit such as drinking alcoholic drinks and smoking as well as personal aspects such as sex, age, and consumance and exposure to carcinogens from the environment as factors to determine one’s likelihood to develop one.

Car accidents are know to deal physical and property damages that ranges from minor to life-threatening sustenance of major injuries and at some extent, some minor injuries were known to develop in to a disabling complication that can affect patient’s quality of life and ability to earn.

Road accidents, on the other hand, are considered one of the main cause of human death as there is an approximately 1.3 million people die each year as a result of road traffic crashes. Most of these death are not dead on the spot but are dead on arrival or due to progressive condition of their injury with addition of their already present health condition and unfortunately for those patient facing such, medical bills for recuperation and surgical operation involving serious conditions are pretty huge, in retrospect and from experience.

In an event of a car crash, that follows an an either minor or significant sustenance of injuries wherein victim and everyone involved in the crash has to pay for medical bills for their recuperation. There is a silver lining for the victims as the existence of injury claims and compensation pay is there against the at-fault driver.

In legal terms, medical payments coverage is a type of compensation pay or agreement between at-fault driver and the victim that help pay for medical and funeral expenses, if there are fatal casualties, following a car accident. This form of auto insurance is optional that typically covers the victim or the policy holder and its occupants. It is more known as MedPay, its coverage applies to everyone involved no matter who is at fault.

In U.S., as one of the nation that has large population per city, it also means about the large death records every year as well. As more than 2.8 million average number of deaths are recorded every year and in the last year, it has exponentially increased to more than 3.3 million total recorded deaths. These deaths has various reasons such as heart disease,all types of cancer, unintentional injuries, and medical malpractice and errors.

In a surgery, wherever the spot of the surgery will be conducted, all is clearly a big deal whether it is an appendix removal surgery or even a bone marrow transplant, whatever the intensity and risk of a surgery, it is a big deal for the patient as it is one’s life is at stake. Thus, there are no room for errors or committing blunder even in the smallest detail. Aside from actual surgery errors, if the medical practitioner or the institute itself has indaquancy in preparations, tools, countermeasures, and other formalities needed for a medical surgery then they still deemed as they have committed medical malpractice.

Second opinion is when you visit and ask another physician or any medical specialist apt for your current condition to make another assessment of your current health condition and a smart patient would compare their evaluation and ask for the first doctor to re-evaluate the patient again to see if there is a mistake committed.

Misdiagnosis is a form of medical error, which is medically and generally known to be preventable by any measure that causes or poses a risk to a patient by a medical practitioner where he/she inaccurately or incompletely diagnose or treat a disease or any type of human condition.

In health care, surgeries, extraction and other procedures that may sound, seemed or have history of having drawbacks or chances of dangerous occurrences such as injuries and possibility of sustaining a disability post-operations. Knowing that doctors are about to take a specific procedure that is known dangerous, it is common for him to state what type of procedure is that, how and what are the chances of sustaining a specific injury or any form of suffering following a procedure, this process is called as informed consent

Misdiagnosis is one type of blunders that happen inside a medical institution and is collectively called medical error or legally called medical malpractice. It is a negative effect of negligence to care that may threaten patients’ lives or may not. Aside from misdiagnosis, other forms of medical errors take form in:Misdiagnosis is one type of blunders that happen inside a medical institution and is collectively called medical error or legally called medical malpractice. It is a negative effect of negligence to care that may threaten patients’ lives or may not. Aside from misdiagnosis, other forms of medical errors take form in: surgial errors, negligence to treatment, birth injuries, and mismedications.