Ten Common Mistakes in Medical Practice

Medical practice can lead to errors and failures that lead to extremely serious consequences for patient health and may cause compensable medical malpractice cases.

Specifically, it would be possible to distinguish various forms, which are repeated with special attention.

a) failures to perform diagnostics and, in general, assess the conditions or the patient, in many cases erroneously interpreted the results of medical tests, or by neglect or lack of knowledge by the medical practitioner.

b) Failure to perform the necessary tests or inappropriate use of diagnostic tools, especially in certain diseases like cancer, where early detection is vital in the face of patient survival.

c) The performance of surgical procedures carried out poorly, the procedures pertaining to them, resulting in patient injury such as paralysis, quadriplegia, perforations of internal organs and can even cause death.

d) Damage caused by the same surgical material, such as burns, electrocutions, internal cracks or even forgotten to leave the medical practitioner in some instruments inside the patient.

e) The inappropriate prescription of medication, causing adverse effects in this patient.

f) The spread of any infection caused by pathogens in the environment, frequently Legionella, or even the lack of hygiene when performing certain procedures (for example, sterilization of medical instruments).

g) The transmission through blood transfusion, disease could be as hepatitis or AIDS.

h) carrying out faulty procedures and cosmetic surgery, with very distant from the expectations promised by the physician to his patient, and may even be in the patient deformities, burns or scars.

i) Failure by the physician of their obligation to obtain "informed consent" of the patient, which implies full acceptance of a particular treatment or intervention, taking into full account the benefits and risks.

j) Serious injury or death for failure to provide emergency assistance to the patient when it is required.

All these cases have a common element: a lack of diligence on the part of medical professionals who were involved in them when its work and the activities of the same.

Jose Alberto Espina Andría

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