Discuss on medical negligence and malpractice

Discuss on medical negligence and malpractice

Discuss on medical negligence and malpractice;Legal aspects of nursing, element of malpractice

Two important terms used in medical field related to legal aspect are medical negligence and malpractice.

Medical negligence refers to a situation where there is a commission of an act that a sensible individual would not engage in or the omission of a duty that a careful person would have fulfilled, leading to a serious injury or body harm to a patient (Phillips et al., 2004).

On the other hand medical malpractice refers to a bad, wrong, or injudicious treatment given to a patient by a professional medical officer resulting to injury, unnecessary suffering, or death.

This in most cases this happen due to omission of a necessary act as well as commission of an unwise or negligent act


 

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