Medical Malpractice Attorney Handles A Wide Range Of Cases

By Author: Frank Martyn
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We trust doctors to make us better, to cure us of illnesses, to prescribe drugs to alleviate pain and to provide quality treatment and care we’ve come to rely on. However, sometimes even the most experienced and highly respected physicians make mistakes that could have been avoided, causing injuries to their patients. A medical malpractice attorney represents victims of doctors’ mistakes and omissions, and handles a wide range of medical malpractice cases, including the ones listed below:

Injuries sustained at birth

A large number of these cases deal with trauma to the infant’s brain or body sustained during labor and delivery. A heavy fetus should alert an obstetrician that a c-section may be prudent to prevent the infant from sustaining brain damage due to lack of oxygen. It may also be necessary to ensure that his shoulders won’t get stuck during natural delivery, causing shoulder dystocia. However, some of the births take place at night, when many physicians are not on call and are hard to reach, leaving residents, who are not allowed to perform a c-section in charge of the delivery process. If ...
... any sign of fetal distress is noticed, it is the hospital staff’s job to get in touch with the physician to perform the surgery. If the physician is not available the resident has to try to take the baby out via vaginal delivery, and may, through excessive traction injure the baby’s brachia plexus (shoulder area), leading to Erb’s Palsy. Use of excessive force on the baby’s head by forceps or vacuum may also cause brain damage, as well as injury to the nerves in baby’s arms. Medical malpractice law firm representing the victim will take into account the possibility of long ranging effects of the injury when negotiating a settlement or asking jury to award damages at trial.

Failure to diagnose cancer

These are normally very difficult and emotional cases for a medical malpractice attorney because physician’s failure to diagnose cancer often leads to patient not getting the treatment she needs on time, resulting in her condition becoming incurable by the time it is found. The doctor’s negligence and the passage of time cause the cancer to spread and eventually deprive the patient of any possibility of cure or recovery. In cases of breast cancer the medical malpractice lawsuit often alleges that the doctor erroneously diagnosed his patient with having cysts and failed to discover lumps in the breast until it was too late.

Improper treatment

Many of us have been to hospital emergency rooms, either for ourselves, our loved one or a friend, and have noticed the long wait to see a doctor. Emergency rooms are notoriously understaffed and patients end up waiting for hours to be seen, diagnosed and treated. The large number of patients also leads to doctors rushing from one patient to another, not always being able to properly read patient’s history, ask all the necessary questions or perform a thorough examination.

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