Video – Attorney Mark Kaire Answers If ONE Mistake Can Start A Medical Malpractice Lawsuit
Video Transcript
Ray Hrdlicka – Host – Attorneys.Media
Do you find that there has to be a repetitive history of mistakes before you’re able to file suit and then maybe then find an expert or can you do it on literally a single mistake?
Mark Kaire – Medical Malpractice Attorney – Miami-Dade County, FL
As whether the patient has to have repeated mistakes made by the doctor or whether the provider has to have a history of repeated errors?
Ray Hrdlicka – Host – Attorneys.Media
Yeah, the doctor.
Mark Kaire – Medical Malpractice Attorney – Miami-Dade County, FL
No, no. One, one error will suffice there. You don’t need a history of repetitive errors for a doctor to then level criticism of that doctor. In fact, they’re not admissible.
Ray Hrdlicka – Host – Attorneys.Media
Oh.
Mark Kaire – Medical Malpractice Attorney – Miami-Dade County, FL
When the doctor starts, when, when the expert reviews the case, it is a case that is being reviewed on its own merits, irrespective of the doctor’s prior history, prior lawsuits, settlements. None of that is material unless you’re perhaps bringing a claim against the hospital for negligent credentialing, which will take us down a different path. But for terms of this doctor’s medical malpractice error on a particular patient, it’s viewed in the vacuum of just that one case.