Medical Negligence In Malaysia
The heart of negligence is the element of fault.
Medical negligence in malaysia. Generally this system provides for compensation only when a doctor or any other medical personnel assisting in the treatment of a patient is negligent. How serious of medical negligence in malaysia. Mutalib wan co. The law of tort is compensatory in nature.
This is the first book to be written on medical negligence case law in malaysia comprising cases from the 1960 s to the present. This has led to increasingly more medical negligence claims. It can include giving wrong medical advice making a wrong diagnosis prescribing the wrong medication mistakes in a surgical operation and failing to act on time. By dato mah weng kwai.
Presently the tort system is used to regulate medical negligence litigation in malaysia. M manoharan co. G suresh ayangar associates. Khalid iqbal associates.
The compensation given is at the court s discretion and comes down to how much a person has been injured due to the medical negligence and how their quality of life has been affected. Justin voon chooi wing. Thus the tort of negligence spans the whole range of human activity since it is not concerned with the activity itself but with the manner in which the activity is carried out. One of the factors taken into consideration is the injured person loss on earnings or the inability of the injured person to continue to provide the care to his family.
It provides a useful compilation of local medical negligence decisions. Negligence is a tort which determines legal liability for careless actions or inactions which cause injury. In malaysia claim in medical negligence will arise when the act of the medical practitioner falls below the acceptable standard and a case can be filed in court for negligence by the victim s against the medical practitioner or hospital to seek for compensation. Medical negligence can be generally defined as the situation where a doctor or hospital or both provided bad medical care which caused damage to a patient s health.
Jk lim advocates solicitors. If only all drs agreed to testified against his counterparts in court and is not cheap to seek another professional opinion. Medical treatment is all about opinion and same sickness category doent mean same treatment.