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Causation in Torts

Meaning

Within the clinical wellness and hormonal therapy sphere, causation in torts is the legal doctrine used to establish a direct and foreseeable link between a healthcare provider’s or wellness company’s negligent act or omission and a specific physiological injury or adverse health event experienced by the patient. This requires demonstrating both factual causation—the injury would not have occurred but for the defendant’s conduct—and proximate causation, meaning the injury was a reasonably foreseeable result of that conduct. The principle is crucial for determining professional accountability in cases of suboptimal hormonal treatment or misdiagnosis.