{"id":436,"date":"2014-12-05T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-12-05T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/defranciscolaw.lawblogger.net\/blog\/common-medical-malpractice-defenses\/"},"modified":"2017-10-23T12:28:32","modified_gmt":"2017-10-23T16:28:32","slug":"common-medical-malpractice-defenses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/common-medical-malpractice-defenses\/","title":{"rendered":"Common medical malpractice defenses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It may difficult for a patient to bring a medical malpractice claim against a hospital or a physician. There are many elements that do not always favor an ailing patient, including the lack of money available to properly investigate the claim, the ambivalence in the justice system because of how long it may take, and the constant pain a malpractice victim may be in.<\/p>\n<p>But even in the midst of bringing a malpractice claim, a plaintiff (or at least a plaintiff\u2019s lawyer) must prepare for the <a href=\"http:\/\/injury.findlaw.com\/medical-malpractice\/defenses-to-medical-malpractice-patients-negligence.html\" target=\"_blank\">various defenses<\/a> a hospital, nurse or physician may bring. This post will identify a few of them.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Disputes over standards \u2013 <\/strong>In order to prevail on a medical malpractice claim, a plaintiff must show that a physician\u2019s or nurse\u2019s actions fell below the standards expected of medical professionals in similar situations. As such, a defendant may argue that his or her actions fell squarely within the professional standards expected.<\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/common-medical-malpractice-defenses\/\"  title=\"Continue Reading Common medical malpractice defenses\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading \u203a<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It may difficult for a patient to bring a medical malpractice claim against a hospital or a physician. There are many elements that do not always favor an ailing patient, including the lack of money available to properly investigate the claim, the ambivalence in the justice system because of how long it may take, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7],"class_list":["post-436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-medical-malpractice","tag-medical-malpractice"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Common medical malpractice defenses &#8212; Syracuse Personal Injury Law Blog &#8212; December 5, 2014<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Common medical malpractice defenses - Medical Malpractice - DeFrancisco &amp; Falgiatano Law Firm\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/common-medical-malpractice-defenses\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Common medical malpractice defenses &#8212; 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