Sentences with phrase «by substandard care»

If the patient is injured by substandard care and suffers economic losses, the patient is entitled to recover those losses completely.

To present a valid medical malpractice claim, the patient must have suffered an injury that was caused by the substandard care provided by a medical professional.

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Without access to the city's internal records, we may never know what really brought about Milwaukee's dangerously substandard medical care implicated in the Fetal Infant Mortality Review, or discern the cause of the extreme bias toward African - American babies dying in Milwaukee, or discover the root of the subsequent bizarre publicity campaign by the local Milwaukee government against cosleeping, but we can be sure of one thing, «Something's rotten in Denmark... er, Milwaukee.»

Although their patients are not human, a serious injury or the loss of life to your pet by substandard or negligent care can be emotionally devastating to the pet owner.

According to their website, the most frequent types of allegations received by the agency are: substandard care, poor bedside manner, unprofessional conduct, substandard facilities, inadequate record keeping, and negligence in the practice of veterinary medicine.

In 2005, Family of Pets (The Family Puppy) bought more than 50 puppies from Pick of the Litter cited by the USDA broken, substandard and overcrowded cages; animals exposed to wind and rain; dirty feeding and water bowls, and no proof of veterinary care.»

According to the Montreal SPCA Emergency shelter, a puppy mill is defined as: a dog breeding facility that is solely motivated by profit and does not care about the resulting substandard conditions in which the dogs are forced to live.

By adopting voluntary standards throughout the industry, we will protect the animals entrusted in our care, challenge the small minority of substandard breeding facilities to raise their standards of care, and ensure consumers have reliable choices.

In short, medical malpractice occurs when a physician causes harm by providing substandard care.

In order to establish medical malpractice, the injured patient must demonstrate the following: i) the ophthalmologist owed a duty of care to the patient; ii) the ophthalmologist breached the duty of care owed to the patient by providing negligent or substandard care; and iii) the ophthalmologist's breach was a direct cause of the patient's injury.

The direction from the HPRB in this case is essentially that where an inquiry committee does not view a complaint as trivial, frivolous, vexatious or made in bad faith, it can not elect to take no further action under s. 33 (6)(a) of the Act on the basis the registrant has not generally failed to meet professional standards (as submitted by the college), or on the basis the substandard care was an isolated incident not disclosing incompetence (as submitted by the registrant).

Medical malpractice refers to professional negligence by a health care provider that leads to substandard treatment, resulting in injury to a patient.

The primary public policy objectives of the Alaska Medical Assistant Society (AMAS)(and the American Association of Medical Assistants) are: (1) to increase the quality and availability of health care for all; and (2) to protect patients and employers from substandard medical assisting services by advocating for regulations and legislation that require medical assistants who are being delegated certain advanced procedures (e.g., administration of injectable medications) to be: