Lack of Care

Medical & Clinical Accidents take place due to the negligence of the patient by a health care professional including a doctor, dentist, nurse, hospital worker or technician. If a health care professional’s treatment procedure does not meet the standards of care that should be provided to the patients, then the patient may face injuries or other types of harms resulting from the lack of care. Generally, nobody can guarantee a medical result and unsuccessful or unexpected treatment procedure does not necessarily refer to medical malpractice. But if the patient’s injury or bad condition is caused due to the negligence or ignorance of the health care professional, then he or she has all the civil and legal rights to sue the care provider.

Negligence by medical professionals includes errors in diagnosis, illness management and treatment procedure. If such a lack of care from the part of the medical professional arises and causes injuries to the patient, then the persons and institutes that are liable to be claimed include:

• The doctor whose actions were deviated from the general standards of treatment.
• The hospital, nursing home or care home that was responsible for problems such as sanitation and medications through improper care and inadequate training.
• State, federal or local agencies which operate the hospital facilities.

There have been laws designed for protecting the rights of the patients against injuries caused due to negligence of health care professionals. If your doctor has failed to treat your injury and health condition and to properly or wrongly diagnose it, it may cause more new and aggravated injuries leading to further health problems in your body. Medical & Clinical Accidents occur when your medical professional including your physician, nurse, chiropractor, dentist or surgeon carries out one or more of the following erroneous actions:

• Failure or delay in properly diagnosing your exact disease or health condition.
• Failure to give you appropriate treatment procedure as per your health condition.
• Caused you harm because of treating you negligently.
• Caused you injury or left some equipment in your body during your surgical procedure.
• Prescribed you wrong, inappropriate or unnecessary medicines or devices.

While these accidents usually involve surgical procedures like wrong site or patient surgery or leaving some equipment inside the body during the surgery, it may also involve wrong treatment or diagnosis. One of the most common forms of medical malpractice is obstetrical malpractice.