Essay On Medical Negligence

What is a medical negligence or malpractice?
Medical negligence happens when a medical assisstant or any medical staff fail to use the appropriate care,which can lead to a damage,injuy or even death of the person they have performed anything on.
Medical malpractice is professional negligence by act or omission by a health care provider in which the treatment provided falls below the accepted standard of practice in the medical community and causes injury or death to the patient, with most cases involving medical error.

In 2010 a women sued the hospital of pitsburgh stating that she was given hepatitis C from a medical assisstant, and after researching the history of that medical assisstant , they found that that he was fired from his job at the hostital due to an abuse and stealing of narcotic medications that were used to treat cancer patients. Also was charged from a kansas court for stealing drugs and needles after he was sued by the other hospital he worked for .but he plea of not guilty.
In January 19, 2009, the medical assistant working

for OAS injected a vaccination to a patient named kerr , then she began feeling faint and fell off the examination table. The medical assistant tried to prevent the patient from falling on the floor, but she was unsuccessfull, which resulted on an injury of the patient . Kerr alleged that the medical assistant did not instruct her to lie down on the examination table after she was done injecting her vaccine. And after a long trial at the court they had to dismiss the case due to a liability of the company and that the vaccine didn’t have any side effects on it’s own.
In 2009 a medical assisstant was arrested in LAS VEGAS because she was giving a botox injection to a patient while the doctor was supervising her.

She was simply following the doctoer’s orders thinking that all of the medical assistants must do so.but in the state of nevada medical board, medical assisstants are prohibited from giving any injections which led the medical assistant to a ten felony count on allegations of “unlawful practice of medicine”. And after months of being held accountable for the malpractice, the medical assisstant’s nightmare came to an end after her attorny found out that the ten felony count against her of “unlawful practice of medicine” were going to be dismissed because upon reading a 30 year law , the state medical board reversed its position stating that the state law allows rge medical assisstants to inject anything from flu shots to botox as long as they are under supervision of the

doctor.
These cases just show that our heath is not just in the hands of the doctors and nurses, but it’s in the hand of the entier medical facility and beyond. So all the medical staff should help patients get better,not infect them with a new disease or health condition. And yes medical assistants get sued over anything that have affected a patient’s health and that would lead to a temination of their carreer as well as their reputation.