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Medical Malpractice

December 23, 2015 by: Content Team

Medical malpractice is a legal term that refers to negligence by an act, or failure to act, by a doctor or other healthcare provider. When a medical professional’s treatment fails to meet the accepted standard within the medical community, and it causes injury to, or death of, the patient, it is considered to be malpractice. Medical malpractice is a very […]

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Malpractice

February 3, 2015 by: Content Team

Malpractice occurs when a member of any profession acts with negligence or incompetence in dealing with a patient or client. The most common type of malpractice relates to the medical field when a doctor fails to give a patient the degree of care that another doctor of similar skill would give in a similar situation. Legal malpractice refers to the […]

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