{"id":163,"date":"2008-12-16T10:49:46","date_gmt":"2008-12-16T09:49:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theinjurylawyers.co.uk\/injury-lawyers-blog\/?p=163"},"modified":"2008-12-16T10:51:22","modified_gmt":"2008-12-16T09:51:22","slug":"medical-negligence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theinjurylawyers.co.uk\/injury-lawyers-blog\/2008\/12\/16\/medical-negligence\/","title":{"rendered":"Medical Negligence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Personal injury claims of this type are often both complex in the nature of the work and distressing to clients and the victim of the personal injury. Medical professionals such as Doctors, Surgeons, Nurses and Dentists all have a duty of care to their patients. If they are found to have breached this duty of care a <a title=\"Medical Negligencen Claims \" href=\"http:\/\/www.theinjurylawyers.co.uk\/medical-negligence-claims.php\">medical negligence<\/a> personal injury claim is possible. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theinjurylawyers.co.uk\/injury-lawyers-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/medical-negligence.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"medical-negligence\" width=\"500\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-181\" \/><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Medical negligence cases often prove to be complex entwining both the <strong>law and medical profession<\/strong> therefore they require specialist personal injury solicitors to conduct them.<\/p>\n<p>Medical negligence cases can involve a variety of different injuries such as; injuries caused and sustained during child birth to either the mother or the child, delayed or missed diagnosis, surgical errors or neglect, wrong or inappropriate treatment, failure to correctly advise patient of side effects or consequences of a treatment or procedure.<\/p>\n<p>If you feel you have been the <strong>victim of medical negligence<\/strong> and would like one of our team to discuss the particular circumstances of your <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theinjurylawyers.co.uk\/\" title=\"injury\">injury<\/a> please contact us on <strong>0800 634 75 75<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Personal injury claims of this type are often both complex in the nature of the work and distressing to clients and the victim of the personal injury. Medical professionals such as Doctors, Surgeons, Nurses and Dentists all have a duty of care to their patients. If they are found to have breached this duty of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theinjurylawyers.co.uk\/injury-lawyers-blog\/2008\/12\/16\/medical-negligence\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Medical Negligence<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-claims"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Medical Negligence<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Medical professionals such as Doctors, Surgeons, Nurses and Dentists all have a duty of care to their patients\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, 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