If you, or anyone in your family has been injured as a result of medical negligence, or if you just suspect that to be the case, you have the legal right to pursue the issue and, if necessary to file a claim of medical negligence.
If, in fact, the injury or the death was caused, either completely or partially, by any breach of duty by a medical care professional - nursing, medical or dental - you and be compensated financially. This is what medical negligence is all about. Not only that, as a private patient who paid a physician for your medical care you can sue for breach of medical contract, stating that your medical care was substandard, and you are a victim of medical negligence.
There are so many circumstances and situations that can result in medical negligence. Not only during surgery, but also during emergency room procedures, anesthesia administration, cancer treatment, general medical practice and diagnosis, ophthalmology, psychiatric services, radiology, and many others.
You can sue for medical negligence due to failure to correctly diagnosis, or delay of correct diagnosis, or a physician's failure to warn you of the risks of the treatment they conduct or recommend. Physicians aren't the only ones liable for medical negligence, however. You can also claim medical negligence on the part of dentists, nurses, physicians' assistants, physiotherapists, midwives, psychologists and psychiatrists.
For your medical negligence suit to succeed you must bring adequate proof, as supplied by medical experts, that it is more probable than not that serious mistakes did occur in your medical care and treatment and that these errors were a significant part of the injury which you or your family member suffered.
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