Personal Injury: Medical Malpractice 

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Our health is perhaps the most valuable asset we possess. When we get sick or injured, we look to medical and healthcare professionals to restore our good health.  But what happens if, due to a mistake, carelessness, or negligence, our health is in fact harmed by the very treatment we hope will make us well?

Doctors, nurses, physicians’ assistants, and other healthcare workers, like most professionals, are subject to certain standards governing how they must perform their duties. While not every error or misjudgment by a physician, nurse, or other health care professional amounts to actionable medical negligence, a failure to live up to the standards of the medical profession, may entitle an injured patient, or his or her family, to compensation. By the very nature of the work they do, a doctor’s or nurse’s simple mistake can have grave consequences for the patient.

Medical negligence, sometimes called medical malpractice or “medmal” for short, can occur in a variety of ways.  In some instances, the doctor fails to do something or do anything in diagnosing or treating a condition.  Sometimes there is a delay. In other cases, the injury is caused by something the doctor did, or something the doctor directed someone else to do, such as the administration of the wrong type or amount of medication, or a mistake during surgery leading to complications. 

Medical negligence may be the cause of the following types of problems, as well as many others not listed here:

• birth injuries or birth trauma
• early or pre-term labor
• miscarriage
• obstetric complications
• postpartum complications
• prenatal care
• stillbirth
• complications during pregnancy
• gestational diabetes
• misdiagnosis
• failure to diagnose, such as failure to diagnose cancer
• surgical error
• complications following surgery
• incorrect medications
• nerve injury

If you think that you or someone you love has been hurt by medical negligence, contact the Law Office of Brian T. Stern and make an appointment for a free initial consultation. You will be able to meet with an experienced attorney who will evaluate your case and determine if we can help.