Relevant & Important Information About Personal Injury Law So You Can Be In The Know
Laser and Lasik eye surgery is one of our era's miracle medical procedures. A miracle, though, can quickly become a nightmare if your eye surgeon doesn't exercise reasonable care.
While surgeries are most often highly complex, surgical errors can be quite simple. Was the doctor rushing when he or she grazed an adjacent organ or nerve with the scalpel? Were clearly laid-out procedures ignored? Were time-honored and even professionally or legally mandated standards of procedure brushed aside, resulting in serious injuries or wrongful death?
Nursing home injuries can occur for many reasons, including medications errors, a lack of hydration, bedsores and numerous other areas. The most common injuries, though, are injuries from slip and falls.
Elderly people are placed in nursing homes because when they are no longer able to handle certain aspects of their care. When nursing home residents are injured or die due to abuse or neglect, it is both an outrage and a tragedy.
Perhaps you believe that your doctor misdiagnosed your serious illness. Or you suspect that an obstetrician's error resulted in your baby's birth injury. Maybe lingering pain after back surgery makes you wonder if something went wrong that you are not being told the truth about.
Hospital error is often at the heart of a suspected medical malpractice case. By "hospital error," we mean system defects and failures such as the following:
After your newborn baby or young child has been diagnosed with a birth injury, you deserve answers to your pressing questions. How and why did this happen? What kinds of special needs will your child have? How will treatments, therapy and special accommodations be covered? Before moving forward, you have a right to know who was responsible, such as:
Failure to diagnose a serious illness or misdiagnosis can be the result of negligence by one or more responsible parties. When a patient reports suspicious symptoms to a doctor and the doctor orders tests, it is not enough to simply administer the test and process the results in a perfunctory manner.
As you may have recently learned under tragic circumstances, prostate cancer can spread extremely quickly. While many advances have been made in screening for and treating prostate cancer, men struck by this disease still depend on their physicians to order the right tests, interpret them and act on results in a diligent and timely manner.
An early and accurate diagnosis of ovarian cancer can make the difference between recovery and a spread of the disease leading to a tragic early death. While numerous advances have been made in detecting and treating this aggressive form of cancer, patients are still highly dependent on the knowledge and diligence of their doctors.
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