Medical malpractice, as I’ve told juries for the past 41 years, is a departure from accepted standards of care. And what that means in English is, did a
doctor do something he or she should not have done? Or did a doctor fail to do something that they should have done? Surgical example, cutting a artery or
vein that was not within the surgical field, never should have happened. or in the course of surgery, injuring the patient and failing to check to see if an injury occurred and failing to take care of the patient.