The Professionals'

Doctors, Surgeons, and Physicians alike, represent a class of the most well respected, prestigious, and indeed well compensated professions in our society.The role they have taken on as healers is of the utmost importance and responisbility. Their counsel is sought after in order to maximize the individual capacity to live healthy, happy and productive lives. As patients, and laypersons, we are inclined to defer to the medical expertise they are presumed to possess, as it relates to our medical care. However, medical professionals carry a heavy burden; which is the duty to adhere to a reasonable standard of care. Injuries to patients which occur as a result of a medical professional's failure to adhere to this standard may carry substantial civil liability, for which compensation may be due. These failures in medicine constitute a type of professional negligence known as medical malpractice.

The Professionals'

Doctors, Surgeons, and Physicians alike, represent a class of the most well respected, prestigious, and indeed well compensated professions in our society.The role they have taken on as healers is of the utmost importance and responisbility. Their counsel is sought after in order to maximize the individual capacity to live healthy, happy and productive lives. As patients, and laypersons, we are inclined to defer to the medical expertise they are presumed to possess, as it relates to our medical care. However, medical professionals carry a heavy burden; which is the duty to adhere to a reasonable standard of care. Injuries to patients which occur as a result of a medical professional's failure to adhere to this standard may carry substantial civil liability, for which compensation may be due. These failures in medicine constitute a type of professional negligence known as medical malpractice.