Medical malpractice exists in situation where proper medical care, treatment, or diagnosis was not provided or not provided in a timely manner, and/or medical mistakes were made.
This can take the form of surgical errors, anesthesia errors, wrong diagnosis, late diagnosis, failure to diagnose; wrong treatment; wrong medication; failure to follow accepted protocols; failure to make use of available tests, medications or treatments; and a host of other situations where the medical care given - or not given -- caused damaged to the patient.
It is a shocking fact that more people in the United States are killed and injured by medical errors each year than by car accidents. Worse still is that for every medical error reported, it is estimated that at least 50 go unreported.
Medical malpractice or medical negligence can exist in any situation; however, these areas are currently especially prone to medical errors:
- Aspiration Pneumonitis/Mendelson's Syndrome - (inhaling stomach contents while under anesthesia)
- Gastric Bypass Surgery/ Roux-En-Y Procedure/Stomach Stapling
- Fetal Anoxic Brain Injury/Faulty Fetal Heart Monitoring
- Bacterial Meningitis/Spinal Meningitis
- Acute Abdomen
- Breast Cancer
- Non-Small Cell Carcinoma Lung Cancer
- Hypertensive Crisis/High Blood Pressure Crisis
- Beta Strep Testing for pregnant women
- Rapid Assays
For more information, please click on any area above, or feel free to call us about these or any other areas of medical malpractice.
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