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Were You Partly to Blame? A doctor gives you a prescription for medication, or tells you that you need emergency surgery, and you do not follow through and ignore his advice.  You are [...]

April 29th, 2010|

Negligent Errors in Making a Diagnosis

A doctor's duty to make a correct diagnosis requires him to inform himself by ordering the necessary tests, interpreting the test results correctly, and arriving at a logical conc [...]

April 13th, 2010|

Rules in Medical and Dental Malpractice

How To Get Your Ex Girlfriend Back The Best Judgment Rule Another thing you may run into is the best judgment rule. This says that your doctor did not guarantee a good result. He only [...]

March 30th, 2010|

Rules in Medical and Dental Malpractice

The Respectable Minority Rule You are sitting outside the treatment room of a hospital when you hear one nurse say to another, "Dr. Jones is butchering that poor patient!" The patient [...]

March 17th, 2010|

Rules in Medical and Dental Malpractice

School of Thought Rule You have already read about the New Jersey case, which held that a podiatrist cannot be expected to treat a cardiac arrest, because he is only trained to work be [...]

February 18th, 2010|

Rules in Medical and Dental Malpractice

The State of the Art Rule This means the doctor has to be up-to-date and in step with modern medicine or dentistry. For example, we know today that lumpectomy (non-disfiguring removal [...]

February 5th, 2010|

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