>One of the challenges of the medical profession in the XXI century is that google-assisted patients are ready to sue at the minimum sight of anything even slig

>One of the challenges of the medical profession in the XXI century is that google-assisted patients are ready to sue at the minimum sight of anything even slightly off the perfect diagnosis and treatment. No lawyer will take that case unless you pay cash up front; if you did, they'd be professionally obliged to tell you that you're wasting your money. Medical malpractice is defined and decided wholly in terms of the accepted standard of care. If you did what your competent peers would do in the same situation, if you followed the guidance of a recognised expert body, and if you documented that thoroughly, then you're legally in the clear. A great deal of medical care is demonstrably sub-optimal, but still very comfortably above the threshold of negligence. Overwhelmingly, patients don't sue because they have over-inflated expectations - they sue because clinicians and hospital systems make a lot of foreseeable and consequential errors. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8667701/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8667701/