Medical Negligence - Sueing a Practicioner in QLD?
Has anyone gone down this route at all? Has your case been accepted as a valid case for medical negligence? How did you start the process? Who did you see?
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@melclarity
Medical Negligence covers a large range of issues in medical care, including:
Medical Negligence covers a large range of issues in medical care, including:
- Misdiagnosis
- Failure to warn
- Failure to provide appropriate treatment
- Failure to provide referral to a medical specialist
- Delayed diagnosis
- Failure to properly communicate the risks of treatment
- Failure to perform surgery with 'reasonable care' and skill
- Failure to return correct test results
- Failure to provide crucial post-operative care
- Failure to prescribe the correct medication (or incorrect dosage)
- Dental injuries (eg permanent damage from removal of wisdom teeth)
- Failure to sterilise
- Failure to correctly monitor pregnancy/birth