Sentences with phrase «used by medical malpractice»

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In other words, medical malpractice takes place when a person or entity causes a patient harm by deviating from the level of care that a reasonably prudent person or entity would have used in the same or a similar situation.

Medical malpractice takes place when a physician causes an injury or death by failing to use the appropriate level of care in that situation.

There are three common defenses used by physicians who are facing a medical malpractice suit for a birth injury:

Specifically, malpractice occurs when a medical professional causes injuries by failing to use reasonable care under the circumstances.

Instead, malpractice takes place when a medical professional causes an injury or death by failing to use the appropriate standard of care.

Birth injuries caused by negligence are usually the result of medical malpractice or the mother's use of a defective drug which may have been harmful to the fetus, but unfortunately the mother was never warned of the dangers.

This is the exact argument that was used by tort reform advocates to pass sweeping medical malpractice tort reform in Texas back in 2003.

Wrongful deaths are caused by a range of events, including auto, truck and motorcycles accidents [discussed here separately], use of defective products, medical malpractice -LRB-[discussed here separately], or workplace accidents [discussed here separately].

The health care cost containment bill signed into law by Gov. Deval Patrick will soon bring sweeping changes to Massachusetts hospitals and patients, including more widespread use of electronic medical records and a «cooling off» period before filing medical malpractice lawsuits.

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Explicit and implicit admissions by a doctor that he committed medical malpractice can be used as evidence against him to prove that he committed medical malpractice.

* They are trained to «apologize» by the insurance companies in hopes of avoiding a lawsuit since these apologies have been shown to deter some possible litigants and are prohibited by law from use as evidence in a medical malpractice claim.