Common Medical Errors Can Have Devastating Consequences

What is medical malpractice? Medical malpractice occurs when a patient is injured or harmed by the actions (or lack of action) on the part of a doctor, nurse or hospital employee. It occurs when a medical professional fails to provide the care and treatment that is expected from them. Although these incidents don’t happen that often, when they do occur, they can have devastating consequences.
Here are some of the most common forms of medical negligence that can have serious and adverse effects on patients:
• Misdiagnosis: These cases account for a large number of medical malpractice complaints. When a doctor misdiagnoses or fails to diagnose a serious disease, treatment opportunities may dwindle for the patient. The key to proving liability in such a case is to show that your doctor did not do what other competent doctors within the same specialty would have done.
• Birth injuries: Medical negligence can cause serious birth injuries among newborns including brain damage, cerebral palsy and Erb’s palsy. The problems most commonly associated with birth injuries are the doctor’s failure to diagnose the mother’s medical condition; failure to identify birth defects, ectopic (within the Fallopian tubes) pregnancies, or some type of disease or infection in the mother that could affect the fetus.
• Medication errors: About 1.5 million Americans are harmed by prescription errors each year. Patients, for example, could be harmed if the doctor prescribes the wrong medication, if the pharmacy gives out the wrong medication or if the wrong dosage is administered, etc.
• Surgical errors: A number of things can go wrong in surgery including anesthesia errors, wrong-site surgery and other types of errors.
If you or a loved one has been harmed by medical negligence in the New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, and Pennsylvania areas, please contact the experienced personal injury attorneys of the Law Office of Kenneth A. Wilhelm. We have the resources, experience and access to medical experts – which are the keys to strengthen your medical malpractice case. Call us at 1-800-WORK-4-YOU (1-800-967-5496) for a free consultation today.
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