Failure to Provide Appropriate Treatment
When doctors and other healthcare personnel fail to provide appropriate treatment, injuries can become worse, fail to heal, and result in serious injury and death. Failing to provide appropriate treatment includes:
- failing to accurately diagnose an illness or injury
- failing to refer you to a specialist
- failing to properly treat and medicate the illness or injury
- taking a cast or sling off too soon
- under medicating or overmedicating
- prescribing the wrong medication
- further injuring the patient










