The Hippocratic Oath taken by medical practitioners may be expressed as primum non nocere, or simply “First, do no harm.” Where a medical doctor or physician does harm to a patient in the former’s capacity as such, he violates this oath. Medical malpractice or, more appropriately, medical negligence, is that type of claim which a victim has available to him or her to redress a wrong committed by a medical professional who has caused bodily harm to or the death of a patient. To successfully pursue such a claim, a patient must prove that the physician failed either to do something that a reasonably prudent health care provider would have done or did something that a reasonably prudent provider would not have done; and that failure or action caused injury to the patient.