He was not a licensed or trained orthodontist for him to be able to perform any operation on the patients, which is a perfect example of the derelictions and the duty of the D’s. The four D’s consists of Duty, Dereliction, Direct cause, and Damages. Duty - when a health care provider found guilty of negligence owed a duty care to the accuser. Dereliction is when the person in charge violates the duty of care to the patient. Direct cause occurs when there is a failure to deliver the proper care that results in injuries to a patient. Damages are the actual result of the improper care that follows with an injury to another. The dentist duty was to make sure these children received the best care that they paid for, but he failed to deliver that so he owed them an explanation in court. …show more content…
The Direct Cause which occurs, in this case, was the fact that the dentist was not trained enough to perform these kinds of procedures on these poor little kids, as a result, he made the matter worse instead of making it better. Follow with the damages that he cause to those little children’ health which will cause a lot more to fix and unsatisfied patients that had received the damages. The dentist was well aware of what he was doing, instead of helping these children he ended up hurting them in the