Introduction
It has become a common phenomenal for medical practitioners to be sued because of alleged malpractices. The accuser can be the patient who feels that the doctor or whoever the medical practitioners was, had not done his/her work well or the accuser can be a family member or friend of a deceased person whom the accuser believed died because of the incompetent on the part of the doctor. Whichever the case, it is always good to get advice from a medical lawyer. This can be prior to commencement of treatment or after alleged malpractice is suspected, so you need to take it up to a medical lawyer.
Step 1
Why will a patient go to a medical lawyer to sue a doctor?
Some of the reason might be medical related, while others might be not related to medical. Some of these reasons include:
- Misdiagnosis
- Mistreatment
- Improper conduct by medical practitioners like sexual harassment
Step 2
Why will a doctor go to a medical lawyer to sue a patient?
- Failure to pay the medical bills.
- Property destruction by the patient.
If family member refuse to let their patient undergo a mandatory procedure that will save his/her life.
Step 3
Whichever the case, both the patient and the doctor need to understand laws touching their rights that is why we have a medical lawyer. Most people have never bothered to know what right they have as patients. You need to seek the advice of the medical laywer to help you understand. Did you know that you have the right to be treated in any hospital in the country? Whether you have money or not? It is your health that comes first. You have the grounds to sue any hospital that deny you treatment. Also, did you know that it is an offense for a doctor to start treatment without informing you of the danger involved? The doctor has to give different option of treatment and explain to you the advantages of each and the risk involved. As long as the doctor comense treatment without your consent, he has committed an offense.
Step 4
What if a patient is comatose? Then any adult who is authorized to sign any document on the patient behalf should be consulted first.
Step 5
Tip 5
Medical lawyer is not just involved with cases touching the medical practitioners, but also pharmaceutical companies. You may have heard a case where a pharmaceutical company is accused of supplying drugs that had some fatal side effects or they used human for their trials without their consent. These cases are handled by lawyer medicals that are familiar with the medical field. Also a medical lawyer can be involved in cases that involve two medical facilities or any related medical facilities in that case. Most of such cases deal with breach of contract. For example a particular research facility might have signed a contract with a hospital. But after sometime, one of the parties might see the other not living by the agreed terms of the contract signed. That is where a medical lawyer is consulted to help whichever party that feels shortchanged to sue the other party.
