The human body is a fickle and germ-prone life-form compared to the bodies of most animals. A simple sneeze from one human to another can cause amazing anomalies in the body to take place. A flu or cold in other words. When people get sick, our options are stick it out and hope it goes away, use amazingly stupid super medicines that we believe will work, or go to the doctor.
             Doctors are like magicians. As a matter of fact, they were once believed to be healers sent by god to help humans. A doctor can give a simple pill to fix a disease, or perform complicated surgery to save a life. But, as we all know... there is a bad for all good. This bad is called medical malpractice.
             Medical malpractice is the improper actions or failure to exercise proper skill by a professional or others involved with the care of the human body, such as a physician, dentist, blood bank, etc. Medical malpractice is a serious health hazard. Everytime I go to the doctor or the dentist i always think what if he messes up, or does something wrong. When you go to the doctor, you go to help your body, but medical malpractice does just the opposite.
             Infectious diseases are among the most common diagnoses associated with malpractice cases for emergency department care. For example, bacterial meningitis generally ranks second among emergency department diagnoses in terms of total malpractice dollars paid. And for pediatric emergency care, infections are the predominant malpractice diagnoses," says David A. Talan, MD, Professor of Medicine, Chairman of the Department of Emergency Medicine, and Faculty, Division of Infectious Diseases, Olive View-UCLA Medical Center.
             According to Talon, malpractice suits are filed against emergency physicians for failure to diagnose (49 percent), medication error (14 percent), failure to perform a procedure properly (16 percent), or failure to consult (11 percent). Contributing factors for malpractice are ...