Medical Malpractice Lawyers

Medical malpractice refers to when a healthcare provider neglects to give appropriate treatment, take appropriate action, or gives below standard treatment that causes injury, harm, or death. This typically involves a medical error such as a misdiagnosis (or failure to diagnose), treatment, medication, health management, or aftercare. The neglect could occur at the hands of a:

• Technician
• Nurse
• Dentist
• Doctor
• Surgeon
• Anesthesiologist
• Radiologist
• Hospital worker

Keep in mind, that to be legally declared medical malpractice, your claim must have the following attributes:

A violation of the standard of care. Medical professionals must adhere to certain standards that are recognized by “reasonable prudent health care professionals under like or similar circumstances” – AKA, the standard of care. The standard of care may differ depending on where you received your treatment and by whom treated you. Patients have the right to this consistent treatment by health care professionals, but if it is determined that the provider failed to meet that standard, negligence may be established.

An injury was caused by negligence. For a claim to move forward, the patient must be able to prove that the injury would not have occurred without the actions taken – or not taken – by the caretaker. Likewise, they must be able to prove the actual cause of the injury. Otherwise, there is no case to be pursued.

The injury resulted in significant damages. Medical malpractice suits are expensive. Between the endless hours of medical expert testimony and deposition testimony, the cost of pursuing a case might end up being greater than the eventual recovery. Our nationwide medical malpractice attorneys can advise you on whether pursuing a medical malpractice claim is right for you.

If your caretaker fails to “take care” of your well-being appropriately, you may be able to bring forward a medical malpractice claim against them. Talk with one of our medical malpractice lawyers today to see if we can help with your potential case.

Examples of Medical Malpractice

Despite their training and education, healthcare professionals sometimes fail to comply with accepted medical standards or deviate from the standard of care that should have been followed. Such behaviors may be occur with anesthesia errors, failure to warn of known risks, failure to diagnose a patient correctly or in a timely manner, delayed treatment, and more, including:

• Failure to provide correct medical treatment
• General medical malpractice
• Medical device injuries
• Misreading or ignoring laboratory results
• Medical omissions
• Medication errors
• Misdiagnosis
• Mismanaged treatment
• Pharmacy malpractice
• Treatment without proper medical license
• Poor aftercare
• Surgical errors & omissions
• Disregarding patient history

Additional Forms of Malpractice

Birth Injuries
Birth procedures are complicated and can have a number of things go wrong. However, it should be approached with caution as the consequences of delivery gone wrong can have lifelong consequences for both the mother and child. If caretakers during a labor fail to monitor the pair properly, take appropriate action defined by the standard of care or use medical devices wrong, they can be held responsible for any injury that resulted.

Emergency Room Negligence
Emergency rooms (ERs), are busy places that often result in split-second choices by doctors. But, if a patient is harmed due to those decisions or a provider’s failure to meet the expected standard of care, it could result in a malpractice lawsuit. Examples of ER negligence include administering the wrong medication or inadequately triaging injuries.

Anesthesia Errors
Anesthesiologist’s have a responsibility to review a patient’s medical records and to refer to them during and after surgery. If they give a patient too little or too much medicine, the anesthesiologist poses a risk of seriously injuring them with oxygen deprivation, an allergic reaction, a heart attack, brain damage, or blood clots. Other risks might include waking up during surgery, putting the patient in a coma, or even death.

Amputation Injuries
Amputation injuries refer to a medical professional who has wrongfully or unnecessarily removed a patient’s body part. This could be particularly dangerous for someone’s physical and emotional state, permanently altering their life. Errors could include failing to discover an infection, operating on the wrong patient, failing to diagnose a vascular condition or diabetes, using non-sterile medical devices, or amputating the healthy instead of the diseased limb.

When medical practitioners take charge of your care, in some instances, holding your very life in their hands, you expect that they’ll perform their jobs competently. When they don’t, the results are jarring. A Montlick medical negligence lawyer is standing by to help you through your injury claim.

Failure to obtain informed consent
If you never gave consent to have an operation but the healthcare provider performs it anyway, you could have the grounds to pursue a malpractice case. Yes, even if the procedure went perfectly fine. A malpractice suit could also be brought forward if a patient loses a limb in surgery after the surgeon failed to reveal the 25% risk of losing a limb. This is due to the fact that had that had the patient known of the risk, they might not have gone ahead with the underlying procedure.

Connect with one of our compassionate and highly-skilled hospital malpractice attorneys today to learn about your malpractice lawsuit options.