consumer law

One of the hospital negligence problem faced by the consumers is medical errors. A medical error is defined as a mistake made by a health care professional which included doctors, dentists and other related expert who can result in injury or death to the patient. Medical error is a form of medical malpractice because the mistake often constitutes a failure to meet medical standards of practice, which would preclude such errors. Medical error is the cousin of medical negligence, which involves a medical professional’s failure to act in meeting professional standards. Some examples of medical errors included using unsterilized, defective or improper equipment when surgery, giving the wrong type or dose of a medication to patient, surgical mistake which included wrong site surgery, leaving medical instruments behind during a procedure, cutting of unintended tissues, improperly interpreting test and lab results and making the wrong diagnosis or treating the condition inappropriately by the medical professional staff like doctors, nurses, pharmacies and others.

A medication error which occurred due to the reckless of the doctor is one of the hospital negligence. The doctor who is dispensing the wrong type of medicine or wrong dose of medicine to patient which will bring harm or death to the patients is a serious medication negligence. A medication error is a preventable event that may lead to inappropriate medicines use or patient harm. It can involve any one of the following processes: prescribing, ordering, dispensing, distribution, preparation, administration, labelling, packaging, nomenclature, communication, education, use and monitoring of treatment. When a person suffer harms at the hand of doctor, whether due to negligence er...

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...irements are any claim under FTCA must be specifically for money damages, resulting from “injury or loss of property” or personal injury or death” due to the “negligent or wrongful act or omission” by “any employee of the government “who was “acting within the scope of his office or employment” and “under circumstances where the United States, if a private person, would be liable” to the claimant “in accordance with the law of the place where the act or omission occurred.” These must be pleaded adequately in the initial stages of the claim for federal courts to confer jurisdiction over the matter and to award damages. The federal courts will have exclusive jurisdiction of civil actions on claims for money damages, for injury or loss of property, personal injury or death caused by negligent or wrongful act or omission of any employee of the government just as doctor.