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Medical malpractice is a legal cause of action that occurs when a medical or health care professional deviates from standards in their profession, thereby causing injury to a patient.
A doctor I saw 2 years ago for back pain referred me to get x-rays in where no abnormalities were found. His closing statement was ''the pain is in my head'' and that's the last I heard from him.
I've recently seen a different GP and I was given an MRI which found arthritis and various...
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In 2013 I was admitted to a hospital in Spain for emergency surgery. Still to this day, Australian doctors are unsure what the Spanish surgeon did and still to this day, I suffer many illnesses and pain from the bad job of the Spanish surgeon and his medical negligence.
I was...
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Basically a relative of mine experienced the onset of stroke while working one day. He visited a GP complaining about his sudden dizziness and disorientation, and headache. The doctor basically checked his blood pressure which recorded 180/90, which is quite high. He gave him a...
Hi. I don't know where to go now. I have a medical legal problem. to make this short, my son had very bad in-turned feet. The surgeon, at Townsville Hospital, cut his Tibias in half and rotated his feet out to put them in a normal position. Unfortunately, he turned the Right foot out well past...
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I am writing on behalf of my partner. Last year, in September, she went into surgery to remove an abscess under her left arm. The medical team were saying the infection should go away after a couple of weeks but didn't. The surgery was unsuccessful as the infection and abscess...
I am after some help this last week my autistic son had an overdose at his father's place. I took him to the hospital where he was discharged about 6 hours later. The next day he collapsed on the side of the road so had to call an ambulance to take him back to hospital because I was concerned...
I had eye surgery nearly over 6 months ago. It hasn't worked and I am now wearing glasses.... these lenses I have now are the second pair that I have had to order. I have been through so much stress and anxiety. I am now on anti anxiety tablets. And have taken many days off work. The surgeon...
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So as a teenager I was treated for a severe overbite. During this treatment the orthodontist had to remove a product placed on my teeth as part of the treatment.
This was done so aggressively he snapped the roots of two of my teeth, resulting in now having 2 wobbly teeth which I have...
Hi, I’ve been reading around the internet and from what I can gather it seems like I will be able to take little to no action to my current situation but I thought I might post my situation and hopefully gather some further advice.
I will not go into full detail, as some of it is personal...
Is it medical negligence for a surgeon NOT TO IMFORM his patient that he has closed up an operation leaving two surgical clips inside unknown area of the body ?