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Running Head: MEDICAL MALPRACTICE AND LAWSUITS 1

MEDICAL MALPRACTICE AND LAWSUITS 4

Medical Malpractice and Lawsuits.

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Health care professionals are crucial people within the health care systems, and they are known to provide acceptable professional care to all clients regardless of who the clients may be. Besides having quality professional skills, they remain to be human beings like any other ordinary being when it comes to making mistakes (Schlachter, 201). Although their professional does not allow any slight mistakes to be incurred within any healthcare facilities, accidents, and failure of some technology may increase the chances of mistakes and malpractices witnessed in many healthcare systems. It is important to note that healthcare professionals, more so the physicians, must strive to avoid any mistakes and errors when handling patients' needs. This may potentially attract lawsuits or endanger the life of the patient in question.

The husband to the diseased had entrusted the physician with his wife and believed that the physician did what was professionally expected of them when diagnosing patients. Perhaps the husband trusted that the physician was to provide appropriate treatment and care for her wife. Importantly to note is that the physician had expeditiously and professionally carried all the tests, and as per the outcomes, the physician was certain that the outcomes were up to the medical standards and needed not to carry any further different tests for the same problem (Matthews, 2016). What should have been done was to avoid trusting a single diagnosis but rather consider taking a further test to affirm the actual problem.

Perhaps if the physician had many tests, it could have been possible to rule out the best treatment to offer the patient. In my view, the physician's failure to conduct further tests cannot be attributed to ignorance, malpractices, or medical mistakes since the patient never portrayed serious symptoms. From the risk manger's point of view, lawsuits for malpractices are not brought because they are indeed malpractices but rather because of specific poor patient-physician relationships due to lack of proper communication between the two parties. It should have been wise to ascertain all possible tests and use the results for medical and medical prescriptions. All in all, as a risk manager, I don't think the physician had made any medical malpractice since I assume that diseased spouse had facilitated the suit test after deep consolation and respect for autonomy (D.C. Lozar, 2019).

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D.C. Lozar, M. (2019). Technology and the Doctor-Patient Relationship. Jefferson: McFarland.

Matthews, L. (2016). A Short Essay: High Dose Vitamin D Supplementation Reduces Medical Malpractice Lawsuits. Medical Research Archives, 4(7). doi:10.18103/mra.v4i7.868

Schlachter, L. (2017). Malpractice: A Neurosurgeon Reveals How Our Health-Care System Puts Patients at Risk. New York: Skyhorse.