Delay in treatment.

any reason” makes me consider things that are beyond just patient care for any patient transport. Air medical and critical care transport services are often exposed to numerous opportunities to be sued, although our intentions are always to provide the best care possible to patients in the most critical situations. Unfortunately, medical malpractice can occur for a number of reasons—error on the part of a surgeon, a missed diagnosis, prescribing the wrong medicine, delay in referral to tertiary care. This article focuses on treatment delay as a cause of action for medical malpractice. In our setting, time is of the essence in most cases, or the referring facility would not be calling for rapid transport to a higher level of care, so if our delay in providing transportation is the reason a patient is ineligible for time-sensitive therapy or other care, are we responsible for the suffering caused by illness progression?