CSU Health & Medical Medical Malpractices Power Point

When a health care professional or health care organization causes injury to a patient through negligence and or omission, it is called medical malpractice. 

 you will need to find an example of a recent malpractice case (something within the last 5 years) and provide the following information in a PowerPoint presentation:

Give the case a title. 

Write an outline of the basic facts of the case. 

Identify one or more problems in the case that need to be addressed and why these might be important. What legal risks are associated with these problems? 

  • What could the physicians, nurses, and other health care professionals in the case have done to avoid being sued? 
  • Discuss the outcome of the case. 
  • Do you agree with the outcome? Why, or why not?