Doctor reviewing chest X-ray with patient

Medical Malpractice Areas

Some Areas Commonly Associated with Medical Malpractice include

  • Misdiagnosis is the inaccurate diagnosis of a disease or injury by a medical professional as a result of a failure to adhere to diagnostic standards of care, such as failing to request medically necessary tests or incorrectly interpreting test results. Misdiagnosis can result in inappropriate therapy, such as unnecessary surgery, as well as delayed treatment for the true medical illness.
  • Failure to diagnose an injury, illness, or disease in a timely manner frequently causes a delay in treatment.
  • Medication/Prescription medicine error: A patient is given the incorrect medication, dose, or route, or a doctor, nurse, or pharmacist neglects to take medication interactions or allergies into account.
  • Surgical error: Injuries brought on by surgical errors, incorrect surgical procedures carried out on patients, and internal surgical instrumentation.
  • Anesthetic error: Injuries brought on by surgical anesthetic errors.
  • Accidents or diseases are brought on by errors committed by emergency department physicians, nurses, or other medical personnel.
  • Nursing home abuse and negligence: Injuries brought on by physical abuse, negligence, inadequate supervision of residents trying to walk or stand, the facility's inability to meet residents' specific dietary and medical needs, and failure to protect residents from the onset of bed sores or ulcers.