Clinical Negligence can lead to death

Claims for clinical negligence are often made by those patients who have suffered themselves from neglect from a medical professional to practice medicine at the highest standard possible. However whilst people have suffered mentally, physically and cosmetically because of negligence, some sufferers don't actually continue on to live at all. It is true that clinical negligence can concern a number of elements of medical practice. For example, failure to correctly diagnose a patients condition and/or prescribe the correct type of medication. Failure to realise and react sufficiently to a patient's symptoms. Thirdly, failure to provide a sufficient amount of information or care concerning the patient's condition. The list is extremely extensive and can in most cases just be general accidents.

However medical negligence cannot just leave someone in a worse state of health , it can effectively lead to a death of a patient, who with the right treatment, may have survived instead. This gross misconduct of clinical negligence can be, for a family member, extremely stressing and come as a shock. Many family's file a claim for compensation because the fait of death is seen as unfair and could have been helped, this can also help family's with support and funding towards the funeral of their family member that has passed. An example of this comes from a reported story of a patient who went in for surgery on his lymph glands at Sunderland Royal hospital. After the operations the patient began to develop symptoms of dizziness and a rise in temperature, he reported this to a nurse but it was too late and he suddenly went into cardiac arrest. The patient was soon pronounced dead and it was was soon revealed that there had been some form of error post surgery. It was revealed that the patient should have been given an anti-clotting drug named 'heparin' straight after the operation, however he was not and this in turn was what led to his death. The family of the patient soon filed a claim for clinical negligence and one there case, receiving a large amount of compensation that would help look after his family and fund his unexpected funeral. A story like this proves that clinical negligence can lead to far worse then expected, and so it is vital that these 'mistakes' should come to light and people should become aware.

However medical negligence cannot just leave someone in a worse state of health , it can effectively lead to a death of a patient, who with the right treatment, may have survived instead. This gross misconduct of clinical negligence can be, for a family member, extremely stressing and come as a shock. Many family's file a claim for compensation because the fait of death is seen as unfair and could have been helped, this can also help family's with support and funding towards the funeral of their family member that has passed. An example of this comes from a reported story of a patient who went in for surgery on his lymph glands at Sunderland Royal hospital.