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Medical malpractice involves negligence or a failure to meet the standard of care, while medical battery involves intentional and unauthorized physical contact or procedures performed on a patient without their consent.
A nurse who proceeds with the injection despite a patient's objection is committing battery. Performing any procedure without any form of consent (implied or written) is battery even if it is with good intention.
Battery is an intentional and offensive touching that violates the patient's bodily integrity. Negligence is the unintentional failure to exercise the appropriate standard of care in obtaining informed consent, which breaches the patient's autonomy in medical decision making. 1.
Battery?No Consent. As a pure legal issue, forcing treatment on an unwilling person is no different from attacking that person with a knife. The legal term for a harmful or offensive touching without permission is battery.
In California, if a doctor, surgeon, nurse, or other medical professional intentionally violates a person's right to decide how he or she will be treated, the patient can make a claim citing medical battery.