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Medical Accidents

Doctors and nurses, as well as other medical professionals, assume a certain amount of risk and responsibility when they accept patients. They have an obligation to treat those patients with the same standard of care that most medical professionals would treat other patients, and if they do not, they could face serious consequences. Medical accidents occur, sometimes even though medical professionals may try their best to prevent them. When medical accidents that are the fault of a medical professional, cause injury or harm to a patient, the patient may have the right to seek compensation for their pain and suffering. Examples of medical accidents that can occur include prescribing the wrong medication, leaving a surgical tool inside a patient and closing them up after surgery, and accidental death during surgery due to a physician's neglect or mistake.

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  • As many as 98,000 people have been estimated to die each year due to medical accidents and medical malpractice.

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