Medical Malpractice
Many believe that malpractice always involves a physician, and it frequently does. However, malpractice can also be caused by others. Health care providers, including nurses, dentists, and others, can commit malpractice. And so can other professionals, including lawyers, accountants, architects, engineers, and surveyors.
Malpractice is caused by health care providers when they fail to follow a "standard of care," and that failure proximately causes an injury to a patient. Other professionals, such as attorneys, accountants, architects, engineers and surveyors, commit malpractice when their conduct falls below that degree of skill ordinarily exercised by those in their profession.
All malpractice cases are complex. All are governed by a very strict statute of limitations -- some can initially be as short as one year. Because malpractice cases are complex, and because different standards apply to different professions and different limitation periods govern when lawsuits must be filed, it is imperative that you seek help as soon as you believe you have been injured.
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