| A five step guide to pursuing a medical negligence | | | | way future patients are treated and help to force |
| claim. | | | | changes that could save lives. |
| Medical negligence is notoriously difficult to prove. Your | | | | Medical negligence (or clinical negligence as it is also |
| opinion as a layperson is going to come into direct | | | | known) can range from failure to diagnose a condition |
| conflict with the opinions of medical 'experts' and | | | | or making the wrong diagnosis to making a mistake |
| unless you have medical training yourself, the fight to | | | | during a procedure or operation. It can also include |
| prove someone has failed in their duty of care can be | | | | being given the wrong drug during treatment, failure to |
| a long one. However, that does not mean that if you | | | | obtain consent to treatment or failing to warn a patient |
| believe medical negligence has taken place during | | | | about the risks of a particular treatment. If you feel |
| treatment that you are not entitled to fight for | | | | that you have been subject to medical negligence, |
| compensation and to have the negligence recognised. | | | | there are five important steps you can take to redress |
| This fight can be vitally important as it could alter the | | | | the situation. |