The effects of medical negligence on healthcare in today's society. “The real costs of medical negligence have little to do with litigation but with the loss of life, the expenses additional medical care, time off work, pain and suffering of tens of thousands of people every year” (Baker 1). The effects of healthcare negligence are a major problem in today's society. Working on a more cost-effective and safe way to ensure prevention of abuse is what should be worked on to promote a safe and comfortable environment for people. There are many errors that negligence causes in the healthcare field, such as the management of medical situations: informed consent, foreign bodies and operations on the wrong part of the body. These errors are also accompanied by important lawsuits against the healthcare system and the responsibility of doctors becomes more cruel. Many doctors leave and remain in the office in fear and silence. Ensuring that healthcare workers are fit to do the job is what needs to be done to have a structured and effective healthcare system. What is negligence? “Negligence is any professional misconduct, unreasonable lack of capacity for fidelity to professional duties, or illegal or immoral conduct” (Saunders 737). “Negligence is a form of negligence which in legal terms can be defined as the failure to do something that a reasonable person would do; guided by those ordinary considerations which ordinarily govern human affairs or the doing of something which a reasonable and prudent person would not do” (Saunders 738). In medical and nursing practice, negligence means the bad, wrong, or reckless treatment of a patient; causes injury, unnecessary suffering or death to the patient. Hospital errors. “Failure...... middle of document ......bs/md/hopkins-levy-legal-action 20130222_1_johns-hopkins-hopkins_officials_levy .Joyce, Sherman. “Medical Malpractice Litigation.” Gerdes, Luisa. Medicinal .Detroit: ChristineNasso, 2008. 36-44.Levy, Paul. “Sunday Dialogue: Managing Medical Errors.” 14 October 2013. Medical News Today. March 24, 2014. Suransky, Sasha. “Medical Liability Reform Will Not Get Better.” Gerdes, Luisa. Medicine. Detroit: Christine Nasso, 2008. 45-52. Walker, Andrea. “Doctors Leave Foreign Objects in Patients.” Baltimore sun. December 28.2012: 1