{"id":45,"date":"2017-03-10T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-10T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/defranciscolaw.lawblogger.net\/blog\/what-constitutes-hospital-negligence\/"},"modified":"2017-10-23T12:28:00","modified_gmt":"2017-10-23T16:28:00","slug":"what-constitutes-hospital-negligence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/what-constitutes-hospital-negligence\/","title":{"rendered":"What constitutes hospital negligence?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Many people experience medical malpractice each year, in a number of forms. In 2012, there were $3.6 billion dollars in payout for medical malpractice suits. You or a loved one may have recently been at a hospital and found that your stay wasn?t as peachy as you hoped, leading to questions: What is hospital negligence? What is the hospital liable for? Can I sue? Should I sue?<\/p>\n

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Cases in which the patient is injured are known as “Vicarious Liability.” Hospitals are public and private corporations and can always be held to the same standard as other entities in that classification. You may have heard horror stories of some types of hospital negligence. Situations such as a tool being left in the body after surgery, a slip and fall on the premises (yes, the hospital is liable!), not having a nurse available to take care of you – all of these are considered hospital negligence.<\/p>\n

Let?s run through an example of vicarious liability. You go in for an emergency appendectomy, get checked in, and taken in for surgery. You wake up, and there is no nurse on call. Weeks later, after going through an airport metal detector, you discover a small surgical instrument was left in your stomach. Not only is the hospital vicariously liable for the surgical instrument, but if you are able to prove that there was no nurse available, they are additionally liable for that.<\/p>\n

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