First off, a medical malpractice occurs when a doctor, a dentist, a nurse, a professional health provider or a hospital performs in such a matter, which results in injury of the patient. Most medical malpractice claims are filed towards a hospital or doctors. In order to claim medical malpractice you must have a lawyer that specializes in medical malpractice. Your lawyer will ask you to collect the records of the first time you went to the doctor's office or hospital, to the last. If you ask your hospital or doctors office for copies of the records they must provide you with them, they must. Be sure that you know the circumstances surrounding the injury or illness. Also, be sure that you know how your doctor treated you or your illness, what did your doctor told you about it, and what actions did your doctor tell you to take. Answer all these questions, to be sure that your doctor did in fact commit medical malpractice.