Healthcare professionals that provide lower than standard healthcare or deny a patient treatment may be sued for medical malpractice. Negligence in the medical field can range from wrongful death, misdiagnosis, and surgical error to birth injury, neglect, and anesthetic error as well as a multitude of other situations. There is no evidence to indicate there has been a sharp decline in the number of claims filed under medical malpractice. Negligence in the healthcare industry reaches every border, and affects persons of every age, sex, color, race and religious preference.