Medical Malpractice
 Medical malpractice occurs when a provider, usually a doctor, or a healthcare facility, fails to provide treatment that meets the customary standard of care provided by the medical industry. The failure to satisfy the standard of care, or negligence, must result in an injury to or death of a patient.
Negligence can encompass an error in diagnosis, treatment or illness management, and can implicate the doctor, hospital or health facility, or government agency that manages the hospital or health facility.
A case involving the fatal misdiagnosis of a patient's congestive heart failure provides one such example of a medical malpractice case. Another case involving a botched procedure on an infant offers another example. Queller Fisher's prosecution of a case involving brain damage provides a third illustration of this practice area.
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