Sentences with phrase «doctors in similar situations»

Medical malpractice is a type of personal injury where doctors did not adhere a standard of medical care other doctors in similar situations would follow.

In medical cases, there may be negligence when a doctor fails to order a specific test and misses a diagnosis when a reasonable doctors in a similar situation would have performed that test.

Not exact matches

Doctors get a bad reputation for «not understanding the breastfeeding relationship» and parents «for not being tough enough to persevere», but having been in a similar situation myself, is the formula really so bad?

Others in similar medical — but different social — situations would struggle to even find a doctor to see them and take them seriously.»

Under this doctrine, doctors need to administer care consistent with what another physician in the same field of expertise would render in a similar situation.

For instance, a doctor who fails to order a certain diagnostic test that another physician in a similar situation would have ordered may be liable for any damages if a patient is injured due to a missed diagnosis.

It is similar to seeing a doctor as a specialist; you wouldn't want to see a general practitioner for a chronic skin condition, just as you wouldn't want to see a lawyer without extensive experience in auto accidents for such a situation.

If your loved one's death was caused by a doctor, nurse, or hospital that: (1) owed your loved one a duty of care; and (2) breached that duty of care by failing to act like a reasonable doctor, nurse, or hospital would in a similar situation, then you may have a case.