Investigating Medical Mistakes That Cause Injury
When a doctor or hospital fails to live up to the trust we give them — when medical mistakes cause life-changing injuries — talk to a New York City medical malpractice lawyer at the Greenberg & Greenberg law firm.
Medical Malpractice ∙ Doctor and Hospital Errors
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Advances in medical and surgical techniques and pharmaceutical developments have caused as many new risks as benefits to patients receiving hospital and physicians' care today. Even as more attention than ever is given to medical errors and malpractice, abuses still continue at a high rate and with no available remedies other than litigation. At our law firm, our New York medical malpractice attorneys understand the issues and can investigate your case.
Woman died after being administered the wrong medication by hospital staff after a pituitary surgery. The hospital pharmacy filled the prescription incorrectly and nurses failed to recognize that they were administering the wrong medication. Settlement: $1,950,000.
Serious Issues in Medical Malpractice
Any time a doctor or nurse is overworked, undertrained or fails to pay attention to his or her patient's needs, medical mistakes are possible. Common medical malpractice issues that we see include:
- Failure to diagnose/misdiagnosis: Too often patients describe their symptoms and doctors and hospitals either fail to ask for appropriate tests or fail to read the test results properly. Failure to diagnose can mean delayed treatment — and that could mean greater injury or even death. Typical problems doctors fail to diagnose or misdiagnose include cancer, lead paint poisoning, orthopedic problems such as fractures and torn tendons and ligaments, sepsis, peritonitis, respiratory distress, blood clots, cellulites, hepatitis, lyme disease, lupus and others.
- Improper treatment: Because of not understanding the problem or under-estimating the seriousness of the condition, many injuries or conditions, including orthopedic injuries, gunshot wounds, accidental drug ingestion and lead paint poisoning, may be improperly treated.
- Surgical errors and unnecessary surgery: Surgical mistakes can include medical negligence during plastic surgery, orthopedic surgery, urological surgery, exploratory surgery, such as colonoscopy and arthroscopy, biopsy, tumor removal and organ removal. Surgeons may leave surgical instruments in patients, make anesthesia errors, operate on the wrong body part and more.
- Negligent supervision of patients: Hospitals and nursing homes often make common errors, including failure to employ bedrails and other safety devices, failure to provide adequate nursing supervision, failure to manage voiding needs, inadequate and negligent transfer, unreasonable delay in transporting patients for diagnostic testing and mismanagement of agitation and other signs and symptoms of neurological or bleeding/blood clot problems.
- Pharmacy/medication errors: Doctors can cause serious harm when they prescribe improper or contra-indicated medications, fail to prescribe necessary medications, or over-prescribe or under-prescribe medication.
A patient's colon was perforated during a colonoscopy procedure. That medical error led to severe peritonitis and subsequent exacerbation of pre-existing lupus. Settlement: $750,000.
If you or a loved one has been seriously injured because of the actions (or non-actions) of a medical professional, contact us for an appointment at the Greenberg & Greenberg law firm. Our New York medical malpractice and personal injury attorneys can help you bring a claim to recover for your injuries or the wrongful death of your loved one.
