A doctor is a profession which carries out humanitarian duty. Actually the medical science is a combination between art and science. The doctors gain their expertise through their experiences. Doctors are actually working in uncertain situation and their works are based on science learnt and their own experiences. The method of doctors in dealing with the patients is varied because the human body is complex and cannot be wholly understood. 

Because of that, now there is also medical legal to bridge any cases occurs regarding malpractice. Now, malpractice is also occurs in medical world. It is called medical malpractice. Medical malpractice happens because there is negligence. The medical negligence generally is because there is a close relationship between the patient and the doctor, the doctor violates his/her duties because he/she does not fulfill the standard services, and those violations have harmed the patients which are actually can be avoided.  

In the medical services, it is commonly well-known the claims for compensation because of medical negligence. A medical action can be defined as medical negligence because of these things. There are the dereliction of duty to use due care. It means that the doctors do not perform the standard medical services when they treat the patients. Another is damage. It means that any dereliction of duty performed by doctors has harmed the condition of the patients itself. The last, there is direct casual relationship between dereliction of duty performed by doctors and the damage suffered by patients because of that dereliction. It is called proximate cause.