MALPRACTICE AMONG DOCTORS

Malpractice among Doctors

Malpractice among Doctors

Part A

Executive Summary

One of the most important issues in the field of medicine is malpractice among doctors. There have been a number of researches that has been carried out across the globe. Nationwide surveys have been conducted in the number of years that have gone by and still research is going on in this regard.

The most important theoretical discussion in the field of medical malpractice among doctors is to discourage health care providers from interpreting poor care. The notion that the tort system deters negligence has been invoked to make the “business case for patient safety”—the argument that the costs associated with malpractice litigation creates an economic incentive to reduce medical injuries. However, the signal that. (Drake, 2009, 58)

But more troubling are those patterns of suing appear to bear little relation to whether the patient was actually the victim of negligent care. (Hare, 2001, p.60)

Incident

The incident regarding malpractice took place on July 2006; 54 years old Robert Asta had to undergo a gastric bypass surgery. Since his family had urged him not to have the procedure, he waited until after the surgery to tell them what he'd done. He called his son Michael a day after the operation and told him he was in tremendous pain. (Drake, 2009, 58)

According to records, Robert called the hospital but was told that pain was normal following gastric bypass surgery. Shortly afterwards, however, the hospital contacted Mr. Asta and asked him to come in for further testing after lab tests came back abnormal.

Turns out the hospital already suspected that something had been left behind during Asta's surgery. They performed a CT scan, but the results were inconclusive.

A few days later, Asta's girlfriend contacted his son. She was concerned about Asta and asked Michael to come over. By the time he arrived, his father was dead. An autopsy later revealed that the cause of death was postoperative infection in the abdominal cavity due to “retention of surgical tubing”.

Coney Island Hospital did not report, however, that the incident occurred or that it was the direct result of Asta's wrongful death. Rather, they reported the incident as an “unexpected death”.

The Asta family was able to produce internal hospital documents, however, that states that there was a “foreign object left in body during surgical operation”. Although the hospital never admitted fault, it was enough to get them to settle the medical malpractice case, agreeing to pay the Asta family $675,000.

Critical Analysis

A proper critical analysis the malpractice on gastric bypass surgery:

In most hospitals, trauma care is delivered by general surgery traumatologists or orthopaedic surgeons. The trauma care is provided by general surgeons for a couple of days a week and by orthopaedic surgeons on the remaining days. Patients have uneven process of skill and know very little about the effects that may arise during the treatment of gastric bypass surgery. In order for the betterment of the people they must be specified about the training programs and awareness amongst children and adult must ...