What is psychiatric medical negligence?

When it comes to psychiatric negligence there are two distinct types that patients may make medical negligence claims for:

Already psychiatric patients
This may involve the negligent diagnosis, treatment and management of psychiatric patients. Personal injury solicitors that work on such cases need to be highly skilled and tolerant in order to deal with clients who may have faulty recollections and delusional beliefs as a result of their psychological personal injury.

Negligence that leads to psychiatric injury
These are all other cases of medical negligence that involve/lead to a psychiatric element. This usually includes Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder which is anxiety or depression resulting from the negligence of another. Such negligence may include causing a car accident or not administering enough anaesthetic before an operation. These are inherently difficult cases to prove as psychiatric illness is difficult to diagnose and the amount of damages appropriate difficult to rule.

Scenarios under which psychiatric medical negligence claims could be made include:

Needle stick accident
A male nurse suffers a needle stick work accident because someone leaves a used needle on a trolley, as a result of which he has to have a blood test to check if he has sustained HIV. The bloods take three months to come back; that's three long months of torment wondering whether he will develop this terrible illness.

Birth injury
Failure for a hospital to diagnose a baby's lack of oxygen during childbirth results a serious birth injury. The child dies as a result and his mother suffers serious psychiatric injury after the traumatic experience of going through a difficult birth then having to witness the painful hours before her son past away.

Surgical error
A woman suffering from a prolapsed womb has a hysterectomy which goes wrong in the operating theatre when the surgeon's knife slips as a result of medical negligence. She undergoes gruelling surgery and is left unable to enjoy making love. Her husband consequently leaves her and she has to endure a messy divorce.

Cancer misdiagnosis
Misdiagnosis of breast cancer causes a woman's tumour to become so advanced that she has to have a mastectomy. The removal of her breast stops the cancer from spreading but she suffers severe depression as she no longer feels like a complete woman.

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