Money compensation

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You can seek financial compensation for:

• Wrongful disclosure of data contained in the medical records of the health status and treatment as well as other information about the patient.

• Failure to provide medical records.

• failure to provide health care services according to the requirements of medical knowledge, in the context of limited possibilities of their success - for failure to use reliable resources, based on the medical criteria of procedure for the order of access to these benefits.

• Not informing the patient about the state of their health.

• provide specific health benefits without their consent.

• disrespect their privacy and dignity during the provision of specific benefits.

Compensation for errors related to medical services

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The appropriate way of approaching civil claims caused entirely by medical malpractice is by arising a compensation claim for damages and a compensation for the damage suffered. The lawsuit should be approached in a court, or in another place, depending on where the medical establishment is placed, where the patient was treated. 

The received medical negligence claims for the patients suffered damage should cover expenses arising from the need to treat the consequences caused by medical error. For example the cost of medication, treatment, rehabilitation and lost wages that in the event of injury or harm to health, cover all damages resulting from the costs. All expenses guaranteed by the compensation must be adequate in relation to the consequences of an error committed by the doctor. In addition to the specific damages, the court may also award monetary compensation for non-pecuniary harm, such as caused pain, suffering, humiliation, or perhaps other physical and mental suffering.

It should be noted that the injured patient can claim the compensation on his/her behalf. This claim is entitled in the event of a total or partial loss of earning capacity, or if the injured patient is a subject to reduced working capabilities in future.
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A misdiagnosis

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A diagnostic error is quite common when it comes to medical profession, it involves a doctor providing a patient a wrong judgement and thus a false diagnosis. A special medical negligence lawyers should be the one who decides whether the misjudgement should be classed as a professional mistake. Unfortunately only a skilled person with special expertise is able to assess whether the specific doctor’s mistake was wrong, according to the rules and procedure applicable with the medical profession. More importantly they decide what effect this misjudgement had on the patient, and whether this will or already has had an impact upon the overall health of the patient. The responsibility of the doctor will be ignored if the doctor was either constrained with limited medical knowledge or if he/she nevertheless tried to provide as much care as possible. In such situations, even a complete misdiagnosis cannot depend fully on the medical liability.

Bear in mind that only the intentional misleading of conduct can lead to a doctor being accused of medical malpractice allegations. More importantly, the doctor has an obligation to always act with care towards every patient, according to the principles of medical knowledge. However there is no obligatory rules that state that the patient should be fully healed, instead a doctor should do anything possible, in order to support those who require the help. The inappropriate performance and attitudes of a doctor may therefore result from disobeying or ignoring vital procedures, for example, performing a necessary diagnosis research, carrying out crucial and frequent one to one visits with the patient, and lastly lacking the verified test results.

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