{"id":302,"date":"2015-03-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-03-18T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/seidmanlaw-net.lawblogger.net\/blog\/infections-from-scopes-and-hospital-medical-malpractice-lawsuits\/"},"modified":"2022-06-29T17:09:55","modified_gmt":"2022-06-29T22:09:55","slug":"infections-from-scopes-and-hospital-medical-malpractice-lawsuits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.seidmanlaw.net\/blog\/infections-from-scopes-and-hospital-medical-malpractice-lawsuits\/","title":{"rendered":"Infections From Scopes and Hospital Medical Malpractice Lawsuits"},"content":{"rendered":"

Medical malpractice<\/a> | March 18, 2015<\/p>\n

Frequent readers of our internet blog may remember an article we wrote previously regarding the procedures hospitals use to report infections within their facilities. In that article, we noted that post-surgical infections developed by U.S. patients are estimated to cause approximately 8,000 deaths annually.<\/p>\n

Medical malpractice is a legal concept that at its core stands for the principle of trust. As patients, we place our trust in the competence and dedication of our health care providers to prevent avoidable injuries from causing us harm. Doctors, nurses and hospitals can breach that trust when they fail to exercise reasonable care to limit the exposure of their patients to preventable infections.<\/p>\n

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