What types of errors qualify as medical malpractice?

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What types of errors qualify as medical malpractice?

[00:00:03.280] Aaron D. Boeder: 

There are some common types of medical malpractice or medical negligence.

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Those would be misdiagnosis or a failure to diagnose in a timely manner.

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They missed an infection that should have

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been caught earlier and should have received earlier treatment.

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Mom is delivering a baby during

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the birthing process, and they fail to recognize that the baby

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is in distress and get the baby delivered sooner.

[00:00:24.190] Aaron D. Boeder: 

That's called birth trauma or birth negligence.

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And there's a lot of them where a delayed diagnosis, especially in a cancer setting,

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there's a chest X-ray or a CT done that demonstrates, for instance,

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a lesion in someone's lung and that's not recognized and they don't recognize it

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and act on it until many years later and that lesion turns out to be very

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advanced cancer when they find it, which can lead to someone's death.