Many lives have been lost or permanently damaged due to medical mistakes in Miami, Florida. However, not every medical error a health care professional makes involves malpractice.
According to the World Medical Association, medical malpractice involves the physician’s failure to conform to the standard of care for the treatment of the patient’s condition, a lack of skill, or negligence in providing care to the patient, which is the direct cause of an injury to the person.
To successfully prove medical malpractice, a plaintiff must establish several elements such as the presence of a doctor-patient relationship, provision of substandard medical care by the physician, injury due to the doctor’s negligence, etc.