Tingle J N
Br J Theatre Nurs. 1994 Nov;4(8):7-8.
John Tingle looks at clinical negligence in his continuing analysis of how the law affects nurses and other clinical staff in the operating theatre. Everybody makes mistakes or errors at sometime or other in their careers. Some mistakes will not cause any injury and will be easily corrected whilst others may go unnoticed and may never be picked up by the patient or healthcarer. In recent years, however, patients do seem increasingly prepared to complain and in some cases to take legal action for compensation when their healthcarers' mistakes have caused them injury. It is important to stress that not every mistake can be categorised as negligence. A number of principles of negligence law have to be applied and satisfied before such a claim can be made.
约翰·廷格尔在其对法律如何影响手术室护士及其他临床工作人员的持续分析中审视了医疗过失问题。每个人在其职业生涯中的某个时候都会犯错。有些错误不会造成任何伤害，很容易得到纠正，而其他一些错误可能未被注意到，患者或医护人员可能永远也发现不了。然而，近年来，当患者因医护人员的错误而受伤时，他们似乎越来越愿意投诉，在某些情况下还会采取法律行动要求赔偿。必须强调的是，并非每个错误都可归类为过失。在提出此类索赔之前，必须适用并满足若干过失法原则。
