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Medical MalpracticeThe doctor- patient of relationship has been defined differently done theyears. In the beginning it developed into a common calling which meantdoctors right medicine as a indebtedness to their patients. Laws were developed toprotect patients, wherefore doctors apply proper care and expert skill. In thepast sestet centuries, medical malpractice has increased, which lead to revisionand addition to the law. Liability was introduced along with the monstrosity of alltorts, negligence. Now in todays society, a doctors duty is to use sightly care, skill and judgment in the practice of his/her profession andwhen negligent, take spacious responsibility.What is malpractice? Malpractice is negligence. Negligence is a tort. Atort is a civil wrong, hence malpractice is a civil wrong. In itssimplest terms, malpractice has four essential elements 1) Duty. Every health care provider assumes a duty when starting consultations, diagnosis, or give-and-take of a patient. The duty arises from an expressed or implied contract.2) Breach. For example, if you fail to make a correct diagnosis once you haveassumed the duty to do so, you have created a breach of duty, due and owing tothe patient. 3) causal Connection. Your calamity to correctly diagnose,(duty you breached) the duty due and owing to the patient and as a directand proximate shit of your breach, caused damages. 4) Damages. The expiry ofyour failure to diagnose correctly, the patient sustained damages in the form ofan spare hospital stay, complications that may or may not be of a permanentand continuing nature. (Brooten Jr., Kenneth E. p. 1) Negligence is the mostcommon civil event filed against doctors. Liability for negligence will not befound unless the interest factors are present (a) the defendant must(prenominal) owe aduty to the complainant to exercise care (b) the defendant must breach the criterion of care established by law for his/her conduct (c) the plaintiffmust suffer loss or injury as a result of this breach (d) the conduct of thedefendant must be the proximate cause of the plaintiffs loss or injury. (Picard, Ellen I. p. 29) In the case of Adderly v. Bremner (Picard, Ellen I. p.461) the defendant physician was negligent in not changing the syringes tovaccinate 38 patients and instead used one needle for every two patients. As aconsequence, the plaintiff was infected with septicemia (blood poisoning).This doctor failed to give the required standard of care. both reasonable doctorwould have in fact changed the syringe subsequently each patient and would haveforeseen the consequences for not changing them.