For example, while ordinary
medical mistakes by a
medical doctor such as confusing two drugs with similar names or putting the decimal point in a prescription dosage, causing harm to a patient, would not ordinarily result in criminal liability, coming into an operating room while too drunk to drive and without reviewing which limb
of a patient needs to be amputated despite a clear
indication in marker on the leg
of a patient showing that fact, might constitute criminal
negligence on the part
of a
medical doctor.