In the year 2012 total 12.232 complaints with suspicion on a medical malpractice to arbitration bodies which turned it’s medical profession are only a routine procedure. It may begin. But for many people the reality can be very sobering. In the last calendar year, medical malpractice were even fatal for 82 people. Overall, a medical malpractice was affirmed in 2,280 cases. Including fell 1.889 cases in which the medical malpractice was the cause of health damage and thus established a right of patients to compensation. About 25 percent of the cases occurred in a light to mean permanent damage. Partly, it’s easy to time that flies and therefore irreparable damage.
It can be also an incorrect active treatment or something go wrong at all during an operation. A doctor mistake a treatment at the moment, if he not treated his patients according to the specialist standard and thus to damage his patient. In addition, the doctor is obliged in advance to educate comprehensive all risks. “The doctor about the way has usually” complications informed and carried them out then or if fateful circumstances “, it is not a medical malpractice. Unreported for medical malpractice experts suspect that the actual number of incurred medical malpractice is significantly higher than 12.232 complaints with suspicion on a handling error, which are incorporated into the arbitration bodies in the medical profession. For example, cases that were negotiated without prior review by courts and insurance collected so far at any point. “In the year is an underreporting of 170,000 treatment errors in estimated 34,000 cases confusion of tongues in the game”, says Eugen Brysch (Executive Board member of the German Foundation of patient protection). Overall, the various estimates circulating as regards the annual medical malpractice.
So should the Action Alliance for patient safety, according to the Bild Zeitung the number of handling errors to around estimate 600,000 annually. End of 2010 the dpa Berlin reported even the number of estimated one million patients who each year are victims of medical treatment failure. Not botch it is warned however, equating negligence with doctor botched. “Such a statement is covered by any reliable statistics. Doctors make mistakes, we are but no quack”, says Dr. Andreas Crusius (Chairman of the Standing Conference of the expert commissions and arbitration boards). He further explains that botch is a deliberately carelessly made work in order to save costs. “After botched cover-up comes – we don’t want that. “And therefore, we make our statistics regularly public.” “Although any errors of course too much one, yet not very helpful unless doctors, a treatment mistake which is flat as a quack,” to discredit. Medical malpractice by MDK captured also the medical services of the health insurance funds (short MDK) collects medical malpractice. “Patients and” Patients who suspect being treated wrong depend on independent medical expertise. Just so they have a chance to impose their claims for damages. The MDK provides this expertise. He creates with his opinion of clarity and certainty for injured patients,”Dr. Stefan Gronemeyer (Medical Director and Deputy Managing Director of the medical service of the Association of statutory health insurance tips, short MDS) strengthens the role of the MDK. This article comes from the health portal. Barbara Reisen E.k.. Micha Weissbrodt