How medical negligence is established
Judith Morgan Teaching and Development Sister, A&E Service, Charing Cross Hospital and Hammersmith Hospital
Judith Morgan outlines how cases of medical negligence are established against health care professionals
Negligence can be thought of as a failure to do something that ‘a prudent and reasonable man would do or the undertaking an act that a reasonable man would not do’ (Blythe v Birmingham Water Works 1856). In order to establish negligence, it must be first be ascertained that there was a duty to care.
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doi: 10.7748/en1998.09.6.5.15.c1235
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