Medical malpractice is a specific subset of tort law that deals with professional negligence. “Tort” is the Norman word for “bad,” and tort law is a body of law that creates and provides remedies for civil wrongs that are distinct from contractual obligations or criminal wrongs. “Negligence” is generally defined as conduct that fails to meet a standard; The most commonly used standard in tort law is that of the “reasonable person.” The reasonable person standard is a legal fiction, created so that the law can have a gold standard of reasoned conduct that a person in similar circumstances would or would not do, in order to protect another person from a foreseeable risk of