Medical Malpractice
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Medical Malpractice
Attorneys And Trained
Medical Professionals
When you check in at the hospital for a surgical procedure, you hope everyone attending to you (the surgeons, anesthetists and the nurses) has the resources and expertise and experience necessary to help you recover and get back on your feet. And most often, this is...
People who work at a medical facility should use their expertise to safely administer treatments to those with medical needs. Those who receive inpatient care often depend on hospital staff for everything from their basic nutritional needs to the administration of...
Whether they are seeking medical intervention for necessary or cosmetic purposes, surgery patients expect their operations to go well. Though some surgeries are successful, others do result in harm or otherwise fail to result in favorable outcomes. According to SCS...
If you are going to represent patients in medical malpractice actions you have to be prepared, with every case taken, that you may have to try the case in court. The attorney who is not prepared to try the case, does not prepare properly and the case will either be...
Recently, a story involving a long-term nursing facility in the Midwest made national headlines for all the wrong reasons. One of their supposedly deceased residents was transported to a funeral home for embalming. When the mortuary staff unzipped the body bag about...
INFECTIONS AND LITIGATION LEE S. GOLDSMITH, M.D., LLB JORDAN GOLDSMITH, JD About once a month we will receive a call from a patient who has suffered a devastating infection while under the care of a physician and wants to know whether it is a potential malpractice...
Unnecessary surgery is one of the leading malpractices that occur in hospitals. Reports show that surgery is the second most common cause of medical malpractice lawsuits. Examples of common unnecessary surgeries include C-sections, heart surgeries, hysterectomies...
The public service announcements routinely advise the audience that if you are with someone who suddenly collapses, who might develop a slurring of speech, a weakness in an extremity, develops blurry vision—-call 911. Get that person to the hospital and fast. The...
When they think about medical malpractice, most people envision a surgeon operating on the wrong patient or body part. Although this is a devastating error, mistakes can also happen in other medical situations. Dispensing or prescription errors in the health care...
People who go to the hospital to seek care expect that they will be taken care of appropriately. They don’t expect that understaffing will be a problem, but it’s a serious issue that affects medical centers on a daily basis. While some patients can receive adequate...
