Examples of Medical Malpractice Cases
Perhaps the most common area of medical negligence is medication error. Hospitals kill or injure more people with medication errors than with anything else. The typical hospital patient is on a handful of drugs, and the typical hospital experiences at least 2-3 medication errors in a given week. Just recently, a pair of newborn twins were given the wrong dosage of heparin and were killed, while 14 others got extremely sick. The entire article can be read on Current.com.
Other problems that may occur is either a delay in diagnosis or misdiagnosis. For example, a delay in diagnosis may occur when a patient tells the doctor of a problem such as a cancerous mole, or lump in the breast that will eventually turn into breast cancer, and the doctor chooses to ignore it only until it becomes to late to cure.
An example of a misdiagnosis is when the patient has a bad cough and flu symptoms, which the doctor thinks will go away with simple medication when it is actually life threatening pneumonia.
Another example of a medical malpractice case is surgical mistakes. For example, the patient has surgery and an artery is clipped which causes the patient to bleed to death.
Some of the most complex medical malpractice cases are brain injured baby cases. If you have a child that was injured, then you owe it to the child to to see if the child has a case. These cases should be looked at most carefully and the law firm that you choose should do everything they can to make sure the child’s needs are represented.
There are many other specific examples of medical malpractice cases, but the general examples given above are the most common.
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