Integrated Medical Education Resources: B.) WORKSHOP DISCUSSION CASES

GROUP #18 (CASES ON NEGLIGENCE and MALPRACTICE 2)

Case #65: a medical officer pierced the ear drum of a patient who protested loudly about the pain and eventually became deaf in that ear. A consultant who was standing by did not say anything. The patient sued both the medical officer and the consultant.

Case #66: a medical officer by chance at the site of an accident tried resuscitation and failed. He was sued by the victim’s family.

Case #67: A surgeon carried out an operation using a new technic unknown in the hospital but the patient recovered well with no complications.

Case #68: A consultant at a dinner without seriously questioning the patient advised doubling the anti-coagulant dose. The patient died of hemorrhage the next day.

Case #69: A physician forgot to prescribe an antibiotic for a patient with acute lobar pneumonia but the patient recovered uneventfully after one week.