3 Common Medical Malpractice Cases
Posted on November 24th, 2019 by Oddo & Babat, P.C.
Medical Malpractice Lawyer
Not every doctor has a perfect track record for treating patients. Unfortunately, even after all the training and experience some doctors have, accidents happen and patients find themselves in the middle of medical malpractice lawsuits. If this sounds like what you’re going through, you could benefit from the assistance of a medical malpractice lawyer, like a medical malpractice lawyer in Salt Lake City, UT. One of the first things you might ask is whether your situation qualifies for a medical malpractice case. Each situation is different, but the following are three common medical malpractice cases that lawyers fight.
Misdiagnosing a Patient
There are many ways in which a doctor can misdiagnose a patient. He or she could fully examine the patient and determine that the patient has a condition other than what he or she actually has. The doctor could also tell the patient there’s no discernible illness, or the doctor could tell the patient that their illness mental, rather than physical, or vice versa. Unfortunately, when a patient is misdiagnosed, necessary treatment isn’t received. In some cases, patients don’t get treated at all, and in others, they are treated incorrectly. Keep in mind, not every misdiagnosis qualifies as medical malpractice. For it to qualify, the doctor would have had to fail to provide reasonable care that any other doctor would have provided in the same situation.
Failing to Properly Treat a Patient
It’s possible a doctor will get the diagnosis correct, but fail to properly treat the patient. This often happens when a doctor has taken on too many patients and people begin to fall through the cracks. Instead of providing proper care and proper treatments for a few patients, the doctor provides improper care for many patients. This is not living up to the basic standard of care for which doctors are required to live up to, and this failure to treat could result in the doctor being sued.
Errors During Surgery
A surgery could go wrong in many ways, but just because a surgery is not successful doesn’t mean the doctor was negligent. There are some gray areas, which is why a lawyer is your best bet in getting deserved compensation. Some errors during surgery that could result in a lawsuit include using instruments that are not sterile, performing the wrong procedure, administering the wrong amount of anesthesia, and other similar situations.
Getting the Legal Representation You Deserve
These few types of medical malpractice are certainly not the only reasons you can sue a medical professional. There are a host of other situations that qualify for medical malpractice, so contact a lawyer to get the legal representation that will get you on the way to recovering damages.
Thanks to Rasmussen & Miner for their insight into some common medical malpractice cases.
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