Generic Keftab

MEDICAL NEGLIGENCE

Do no harm is the first rule of medical practice. Doctors have an enduring and abiding duty to provide safe and reasonable care. When a patient is harmed because the conduct of a medical practitioner falls short of those standards of safe and reasonable care, that patient has the right to take a doctor to task and seek redress through a duly constituted court of law.
Unfortunately the balance of power in the tort of medical negligence weighs heavily against a doctor's injured patients. A plaintiff can expect to pay 40,000 dollars in legal fees just to get to the courtroom floor.
Recent courtroom precedents have swung the pendulum of justice a little bit further in the patient’s direction. In the past what constituted reasonable treatment was a judgment passed by a collection of the offending doctors’ peers. It has always been very difficult to get one doctor to testify against another. An appeal to Caesar about the behaviour of Caesar is always likely to fall upon deaf ears. Recently judges have got round this impediment by deciding themselves what constitutes reasonable care. Now this judgment resides in legal precedent; and not the tea rooms of hospital operating theatres, injured patients face far better prospects of favourable legal outcomes.
Further new legal precedent applies to the concept of informed consent. If a patient is harmed by the outcome of a medical intervention and was not warned by the doctor this possibility might occur, they have access to redress through the courts. All the patient needs to say is that they would not have had this treatment if they had known about the undesirable outcome before the procedure commenced; then the doctor is guilty of negligence.

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GENERAL HEALTH

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