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FREDD HAAS: Medical Malpractice is the failure of a doctor, a nurse or other healthcare provider to do their job in accordance with accepted standards within their profession. It can involve a failure to diagnose. It can involve doing the procedure wrong. Each of these cases are very specific. The most important thing to do in these cases is document what happened; document who may have observed or heard what was said.

Once you've done that, the next step then is to prove the standard of care. In medical malpractice cases, experts will need to be hired. Most individuals do not have medical knowledge. It's a special area. So, you have to have your case evaluated by a medical expert. Those experts then review the case and determine and give their opinion as to whether or not the treatment you received was appropriate.

You also need to make sure that you can prove that it was the doctor or nurse's malpractice which caused you injury, as opposed to the underlying problem that you sought medical treatment for in the first place.

These cases are very time-consuming. They're very expensive. They've very detailed. You need to make sure you hire someone who knows what they're doing.