Week 3 Case Study
Samantha Ryg Allied Health Institute Law and Ethics Diana, Shannon May 30, 2013
Abstract
In this week I will be writing about a case study on a Dentist who satisfied the 4 d’s of negligence. I will be explaining and telling the definition of each D and what it stands.
The four D’s consists of Duty, Dereliction, Direct Cause and Damages.
A dentist practicing in a small town fits several children whom he sees as patients with braces. After many unsatisfactory patient outcomes, including bites that are misaligned, removal of permanent teeth in error, and gum infections from improperly tightened braces, a local attorney discovers that the dentist is not trained or licensed as an orthodontist. The attorney institutes a class action lawsuit on behalf of the dentist's dissatisfied patients.
How has the dentist's behavior satisfied the 4 Ds of negligence? Please be sure to answer this question completely by providing a definition for each of the 4 Ds of negligence and then explaining how the dentist satisfied all of them.
First of all the Dentist was not trained or licensed to work on anyone so there is a mistake right there. He acted in the four d’s of negligence by causing damages to the patient. He is the direct cause of the damages done to each patient. He was not licensed or trained to perform any operation on the patient which falls under the derelictions and the duty of the d’s.
The four d’s consists of:
Duty which is the person charged with the negligence owed a duty of a case to the accuser
Dereliction which is the health care provider breached to the duty to the care of the patient
Direct Cause which is the breach of the duty of care to the
Abstract
In this week I will be writing about a case study on a Dentist who satisfied the 4 d’s of negligence. I will be explaining and telling the definition of each D and what it stands.
The four D’s consists of Duty, Dereliction, Direct Cause and Damages.
A dentist practicing in a small town fits several children whom he sees as patients with braces. After many unsatisfactory patient outcomes, including bites that are misaligned, removal of permanent teeth in error, and gum infections from improperly tightened braces, a local attorney discovers that the dentist is not trained or licensed as an orthodontist. The attorney institutes a class action lawsuit on behalf of the dentist's dissatisfied patients.
How has the dentist's behavior satisfied the 4 Ds of negligence? Please be sure to answer this question completely by providing a definition for each of the 4 Ds of negligence and then explaining how the dentist satisfied all of them.
First of all the Dentist was not trained or licensed to work on anyone so there is a mistake right there. He acted in the four d’s of negligence by causing damages to the patient. He is the direct cause of the damages done to each patient. He was not licensed or trained to perform any operation on the patient which falls under the derelictions and the duty of the d’s.
The four d’s consists of:
Duty which is the person charged with the negligence owed a duty of a case to the accuser
Dereliction which is the health care provider breached to the duty to the care of the patient
Direct Cause which is the breach of the duty of care to the