When you visit your doctor for an illness or injury, you expect him to give you an accurate diagnosis with an appropriate treatment plan. When you go under the knife for a routine surgery, you expect that your surgeon will perform the procedure up to the normal standard of care. Unfortunately, this doesn’t always happen. And though plenty of factors may be involved, medical malpractice is a possibility in these situations.
What is Medical Malpractice?
Medical malpractice occurs when a hospital, doctor, or other health professional causes an injury to a patient through a negligent act or omission. The negligence can occur as the result of treatment, diagnosis, aftercare, or ongoing health management. Continue reading
Malpractices are more or less prevalent in all professions of life, marring their sterling reputations and spoiling their noble causes. However, when it comes to medical professionals, people view them as their saviors and expect them to save their lives from steering into dangerous waters. Unfortunately, it is not always the case.
Steven Goldsmith, MD – On June 2, 1948 at Landsberg prison in Bavaria, 
Niamh Harris – A Florida surgeon has been find $3,000 after he cut out a woman’s healthy kidney, without her consent, after mistaking it for a tumor.