Medical malpractice is an act or omission by a health care provider which deviates from accepted standards of practice in the medical community and which causes injury to the patient. The key to any medical malpractice case is proving that the at-fault health care provider failed to conform to the accepted standard of care; it is not sufficient to simply prove that there has been a bad result. In every medical malpractice case, the injured party must provide an expert who can testify as to what the standard of care is and how it was violated. Johnson, Toal & Battiste, P.A. has access to experts in numerous fields that are able to determine whether the health care provider has violated the standard of care.