Sentences with phrase «breaching doctor patient»

Not exact matches

Read including the full set of comments, including Monckton's -LRB-(I'm on his Bad List, too, among other things, for «interfering in an unlawful manner on the blogosphere» and breaching doctor - patient confidentiality), and the various replies to all that.

When deciding if you have substantial grounds for a case, a professional malpractice attorney will look at: the doctor - patient relationship; whether or not the doctor made a mistake in diagnosis, treatment or lack of treatment; the connection between the breach of care and the patient's harm; the extent of harm; and the dates the injury, loss or damage occurred or were discovered.

Medical negligence occurs when a health care professional such as a doctor or a nurse breaches medical standards and as a result causes an injury to their patient.

In addition to establishing a doctor or other medical professional's duty and breach of the duty of care owed to a patient, the testimony of medical experts may also be relied upon to establish the cause or causes of a patient's injury or death and the damages suffered by the injured patient or the deceased patient's survivors as a result of the injury or death.

We have to prove breach of the doctor's duty of care to the patient — ie.

In order to prove anesthetic malpractice, the patient or surviving family member must show that the doctor breached a legal duty of care.

The patient should also prove that the doctor breached his or her duty to the patient.

Alleging that her ex-boyfriend viewed her records in the court file and then harassed her, the patient sued her doctor for breach of contract and negligence in multiple forms.

There is quite possibly a greater risk of breach for an electronic system of records, especially where such records are accessible globally through the Internet, than for patient records dispersed among various doctors» offices in paper form.

(1) extending negligent misrepresentation beyond «business transactions» to product liability, unprecedented in Texas; (2) ignoring multiple US Supreme Court decisions that express and implied preemption operate independently (as discussed here) to dismiss implied preemption with nothing more than a cite to the Medtronic v. Lohr express preemption decision; (3) inventing some sort of state - law tort to second - guess the defendant following one FDA marketing approach (§ 510k clearance) over another (pre-market approval), unprecedented anywhere; (4) holding that the learned intermediary rule does not apply whenever a defendant «compensates» or «incentivizes» physicians to use its products, absent any Texas state or appellate authority; (5) imposing strict liability on an entity not in the product's chain of sale, contrary to Texas statute (§ 82.001 (2)-RRB-; (6) creating a claim for «tortious interference» with the physician - patient relationship, again utterly unprecedented; (7) creating «vicarious» breach of fiduciary duty for engaging doctors to serve as expert witnesses in mass tort litigation also involving their patients, ditto; and (8) construing a consulting agreement with a physician as «commercial bribery» to avoid the Texas cap on punitive damages, jaw - droppingly unprecedented.