First and on the front lines of the topic, we need to know some facts which can be helpful to evoke us on the serious issue of medical negligence and medical malpractice and they will also help us to understand the importance of primary source verification of our family physicians, doctors or even the hospital medical staff who treats us when we are ill.
Almost 98,000 people die in
hospitals annually each year due to preventable medical errors. An interview
based survey conducted by the doctors revealed that more than one third of the
patients said that they or their family members had experienced medical errors,
most leading to serious health consequences. One of the sources also mentioned
that in every 10 medical negligence cases 4 people were died, and it's the
scariest of all.
As far as the world has developed,
the medical advancement is also on the rise but there is a newer pool of
diseases had also struck the world in past 3 decades. Many fake medical
professionals like doctors, nurses, dentists etc have taken it as an
opportunity to fool the innocence of a common man and a patient to make black
money, which eventually results in four most common accusations.
1. Failure to diagnose
2. Incorrectly performed procedure
3. Error in diagnosis
4. Failure to perform procedure.
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