Medical Malpractice Memo

“Medical malpractice occurs when a hospital, doctor or other health care professional, through a negligent act or omission, causes an injury to a patient. The negligence might be the result of errors in diagnosis, treatment, aftercare or health management.” (Admin) One of the most common type of claims that pharmacies face are negligence claims. Negligence is one of the categories that falls under the area of law called Torts. In the Hundley v Rite Aid case, a tort was filed for injuries that were sustained by Gabrielle Hundley after she took medication from an incorrectly filed prescription. The case involved a jury trial verdict involving Gabrielle Hundley, a minor child, against Howard Jones, the pharmacist, and the Rite

Medical malpractice lawsuits are an extremely serious topic and have affected numerous patients, doctors, and hospitals across the country. Medical malpractice is defined as “improper, unskilled or negligent treatment of a patient by a physician, dentist, nurse, pharmacist, or other health care professional” (Medical malpractice, n.d.). If a doctor acts negligent and causes harm to a patient, malpractice lawsuits arise. Negligence is the concept of the liability concerning claims of medical malpractice, making this type of litigation part of tort law. Tort law provides that one person may litigate negligence to recover damages for personal injury. Negligence laws are designed to deter careless behavior and also to

He said the union was waiting to see what the results of the Fire Department's investigation would be.

According to former employee Stephone Else, medication aide, alleges she heard Ms. Lyles tell Phillip Yovonnie, LVN to “Take her to China” with Amara Anele, RN, and Lilian Foster, Medication aide present at 6:20-6:30am. Per the investigation, the date was identified as 1/23/18 and resident was Shirley Depino. According to the nurse Amara, she did not give any medications

On 06/27/17, the nurse from VNS Shaneeza Khan called the agency to report that when she visited Mrs. Slaninka on 6/26/17 the patient told her that on 06/26/17 in the morning the aide spilled hot coffee on her leg which cause burn. The aide did not reprt thos incident. Patient had the doctor’s appointment later that morning, the doctor recommended to put bacitracin and light dressing on her leg. In addition, the patient mentioned that the aide is always late for her shift, takes multiple breaks for cigarettes and needs to be called multiple times if she needs her. Shaneeza assess the patient, find redness and blister on the patient

There has been a delay in completing this wellness check. Ms. Bell has been out of the State of Michigan for the winter. Coordination of the visit was determined by her return to Michigan. This is a onetime visit that per attorney Mr. Goodwin needed to be coordinated with the prior nurse case manager Joyce Lucas from Wellspring Case Management. On 5/16/18 I met with Ms. Bell and her husband along with Ms. Lucas

Thank you so much for your reply. Unfortunately I do not have any medical confirmation that I can provide you but I can tell you her previous stated condition is true. If you choose to honor her request her favorite Spur would actually be the entire team not one player in particular. She just loves watching them play basketball. Thank you again for your consideration!

Below is the memorandum for the negligence action regarding our client, Mr. Ragnarr Loobrok. To succeed in a claim of negligence, it must be proven that, on the balance of probabilities, that a duty of care was owed by the State of Victoria to prevent him from getting arrested once his bail conditions had been formally changed.

I write this memo is to remind you that I have the surgeon on next week, and I did send your department a request two full week off for that.

In this case, the accident is the proximate cause of Mrs. Smith’s injuries and the medical providers are the intervening cause, as their breach of duty exacerbated Mrs. Smith’s injury to the point of permanent disability and disfigurement.

By 03/18/2016 Ms. Esru Wong verbalized to me that her pain is increasing however, is been control by medication.

In “Salem Doctor Faces Disciplinary Board”, Luanne Rife describes how Dr. Greg Alouf’s dishonorable behavior and medical negligence have resulted in numerous malpractice hearings, thus placing his medical career in jeopardy. Rife points out that he “faced

Medical malpractice happens when a hospital, doctor or other health care professional, perform negligence through their practice and causes an injury to a patient, it may be the result of mistakes in diagnosis, management and after care or health management. (Podgers, 2007)

     Imagine yourself lying on an operating table, motionless, quiet. Above, you notice people standing over you. You try to speak but the words just cannot come out. Your arms feel as if they are plastered to the table. You begin to stand up but feel as if weights are strapped to your back and you are bound to the table. Suddenly you feel a sharp pain in your midsection. In and out, you see a surgeon slicing your body open with a scalpel. Every motion the masked person makes is as if you are being torn apart from the inside out. One would hope this would simply be a nightmare and they will wake up and everything will be fine. In this instance, this person will

Imagine you are injured or sick and have sought a doctor’s help. Although you trusted your doctor, something, something seemingly very in control of the doctor, went wrong. You are angry and confused, but also think of the commonality of medical malpractice. So, why do doctors, who are supposed to help, harm? Though many flaws influence it, malpractice can be, and often is unintentional. Most doctors aren’t trained to harm their patients. Inexperience and lack of medical discovery led to unintentional suffering of the patient. Personal flaws, like lack of willingness to abandon previous medical methods and shortcomings in communication also harm patients. Further reasons why doctors harm are socio-medical understandings that breed hate, prejudices stemming from a society’s belief about certain people, such as the medical practice under the Nazi regime. Additionally, displayed in the case of Ignác Semmelweis, judgement of one to oneself can be detrimental to any progress one’s ideas could make. We will examine these concepts through Jerome Groopman’s “Flesh-and-Blood Decision Making”, Sherwin Nuland’s The Doctors’ Plague and Barbara Bachrach’s “In the Name of Public Health”. Those who practice medicine are, unfortunately, unfree from the imperfections that plague all of humanity. Through these intimate and varied faults, doctors do harm.