8.1 Medical Negligence versus Medical Malpractice

The negligence (the tort's face — the LAW5505-U1.4's medical application): the duty (the doctor-patient relation's creation: the consultation's contract-and-fiduciary duty); the breach (the care's standard — the reasonable-competent-practitioner test: the specialty's level, the resources' context (the developing-country's realities), the emergency's latitude); the causation (the breach- and-harm's link — the "but-for" and the loss-of-chance debates); the damage (the injury's heads). The malpractice's broader umbrella: the negligence + the intentional wrongs (the assault- without-consent; the battery's old face) + the statutory-and-ethical breaches (the standards'-and- code's violations) — the malpractice as the professional-wrong's genus.