If you hurt someone really badly, and they die because of the treatment they got for that hurt, you can be considered to have killed them. This is true even if the doctors and nurses did their best to help the person, or if they made mistakes while trying to treat them. You are still responsible for the person's death if the original injury you caused was very serious and led to their death.
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Every one who causes to another person any bodily injury, in itself of a dangerous nature, from which death results, kills that person, although the immediate cause of death be treatment, proper or improper, applied in good faith.
