Most people associate medical misconduct with doctors and surgeons. However, nursing staff, psychologists, orthopedists, chiropractics, podiatrists, dentists, optometrists, and many others may be liable. The culpable party could also be one of the healthcare practitioners who never interact with patients, hence could be out of mind. A radiologist, for instance, who misreads a biopsy or X-ray could be accountable, even when the patient was unaware of that person’s role in their treatment.
The law may hold Trinity hospitals liable for inadequate screening procedures, maintaining insufficient health histories, wrongly enrolling and dismissing patients, and neglecting to safeguard patients from injury overall. According to statutory provisions, healthcare facilities may not refuse to cover or register anyone based on race, ethnicity, faith, nationality, or failure to afford medical care.
The law may also hold medical facilities indirectly accountable for the misconduct of their staff, which implies they are responsible for someone else’s wrongdoing even though they did not do it. Healthcare practitioners, including doctors, are sometimes contract workers instead of clinical staff. When a physician performs misconduct while giving medical care to a patient in the hospital within these circumstances, the facility is not accountable for the physician’s wrongdoing. Sometimes, the facility could account if it gives accompanying protection to an unfit or unregistered practitioner.
The facility should reasonably inquire about a potential employee’s schooling, experience, and licensure. It should also ensure that enough skilled medics are on board to cater to the patients’ needs.