In the healthcare industry the biggest problem that is never-ending is malpractice. Where

you have physicians and people in the health care profession who are failing to do their

duty as caretakers and lifesavers. The standard of care is what is top priority, but when

you have doctors or health care professionals causing injury whether temporary or

permanent or eventually causing someone’s death someone is liable for that. Annually

doctors and health care professionals pay thousands and thousands of dollars in

malpractice insurance premiums which has caused many doctors to retire early from their

careers because of the rising cost of insurance which is putting them out of business.

Malpractice is beyond a medical procedure error, but malpractice suits have been taken

out in other areas as well from sexual misconduct to incompetence and misprescribing

medications that have caused severe side effects that caused physical and mental damage

or death. There are cases where doctors have sexually assaulted female patients on the

exam table when under a heavy dose of anesthetics during a medical procedure and being

drunk or high while performing minor and major surgical procedures. People have sued

because there are cases where people were examined and x-rayed to discover that they

have a surgical tool imbedded in their body that the doctor didn’t remove during the

surgery that was performed. A case that was reported was someone had an appendectomy

operation and the doctor who performed the surgery was legally drunk and didn’t realize

that as he was closing up his patient she had a pair of scissors used to cut sutures with

imbedded in her gastrointestinal tract. Doctors can make life threatening errors like

dropping surgical instruments into a patients body and stitching them up not realizing

they’re stitching up their instrument stuck inside of someone at the same time.

Many doctors make errors because they’re not updated on their area of specialty

including their board certification of their medical specialty. Many doctors are losing

their medical license because of minor and major errors that cost not only themselves, but

the hospital for which many procedures have taken place at millions of dollars in legal

settlements with the patients and/or their families who file lawsuits against the doctor and

hospitals. Many hospitals suffer greatly financially because malpractice suits create rising

costs for many health care facilities and hospitals. The biggest suits that come are the

ones stemming from neglect and nursing homes get these kind of malpractice suits all the

time because the standard of care is so poor mainly in inner cities and places where the

patients are declared low income or poor. Many of them are put into the care of doctors

and nurses who just care for them because they’re just another patient instead of

dedicating his or her skill to the quality of care that every patient is entitled to receive.

Malpractice occurs everyday in all parts of the country and world especially in places

like many foreign countries where it’s not regulated and documented by a medical board.

The state and national medical boards here in the United States get reports every of a

doctor or nurse’s negligent behavior on the job caring for patients. Nurses take up the

bulk of where doctor’s leave off basically cleaning up the mess and dealing with the

scraps. Nurses don’t cover each other in areas of neglect and malpractice which results in

a lot of high turnover rates in the nursing field. That turnover rate is due to nurses losing

their license or quitting due to occupational stress that comes with the job. Malpractice

issues come up mainly when doctors and nurses are not alert when they are dealing with

patients.