Physicians Being Sued Fairly Case Study 2022

Running head: PHYSICIANS BEING SUED FAIRLY
PHYSICIANS BEING SUED FAIRLY
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PHYSICIANS BEING SUED FAIRLY1
Physicians, who cardinally play a very important role in treating the patients in a
community, society or hospital framework – these physicians have shown signs and even
cases of corruption across various regions of various countries. While some physicians are
practitioners of general medicine and they tend to receive more cases to treat than the
specialist practitioners in some parts of the country while in a community scenario, where a
population is suffering, may be from a same kind of disease – a specialist practitioner
receives a better lineup of business and earning. But overall, studying the social dynamics
closely – one can almost highlight the fact that malpractice amongst the physicians(general
and the specialist). While malpractice can encompass various terms such as medical
malpractice, improper advising and holding up the treatment till further sessions,
prescribing costly medicines and advising unnecessary investigations, medication
prescription errors (Hyeon et al.), trying to treat a disease that a physician is not specialist at.
And all these incidents arise due to a financial urge that can lead to disruption of patient
safety and can even cost a patient, his or her life.
While suing for malpractice is precisely a fair decision that is being made by the
organizations nowadays, across the globe – the continuous auditing and monitoring of
internal affairs of an organization or by the government in a community care or social
servicing clinic scenario, should be encouraged nonetheless as this measure to prevent
malpractice can surely prove beneficial to the quality of medical care and patient centered
care. A study assessed malpractice litigation impact on professional and personal lives of
physicians using a survey. About nearly 56.1% of physicians, according to this study
(Charles et al.), acknowledged that they were being sued for medical malpractice and
because they have committed it knowingly, they developed emotional reactions later on. As a
matter of fact though, a lot of suing by the organization stays in the fine line between fairness
and non-fairness. Similar claims existed in radiation oncology as well (Marshall et al.). This