Medical Malpractice Mistakes
By Wolfe & Associates
Jul. 1, 2011 3:42p
Medical malpractice, medical misdiagnosis and medical errors are just that, errors. All medical practitioners are expected to perform a standard level of care. When a medical professional fails to perform their duty, or when they make an error that leads to undue harm, injury or death to the patient, then it would be classified as medical malpractice.
Simply put, physicians make mistakes. Whether the cause is related to exhaustion, being overworked, making a poor snap decision, failing to perform necessary tests, a surgical error, an anesthesia error, prescribing the wrong drug, giving too much of a drug, or leaving behind a sponge or surgical tool inside a patient during surgery, they all fall under medical negligence or malpractice.
Medical errors can and do happen. Taking medicine, going into surgery and staying in a hospital all have risks involved. The one risk nobody can escape is human error. If you or someone you love was the victim of medical malpractice, contact a Lubbock personal injury attorney as soon as possible. Medical malpractice lawsuits have a statute of limitations. If you wait too long to submit your claim, you may never be able to recover damages, despite if you were in the right.
Contact a Lubbock Medical Malpractice Lawyer
Doctors frequently don’t want to admit to their mistakes. They fear losing their medical license, their job and their patients. Often times medical staff has an unspoken “code of silence,” where they won’t want to turn their co-workers in when they observe medical malpractice. For this reason, it’s important to bring in an expert to cross-examine the evidence. If you or a loved one suspects that you are a victim of medical malpractice, it would be in your best interests to enlist the help of an experienced Lubbock medical malpractice attorney from Wolfe & Associates. We are not intimidated by physicians with fancy degrees, or large hospitals with big shot attorneys. We have an intimate knowledge of medical malpractice and how to reveal mistakes. We have used that knowledge to help our clients receive ample compensation on behalf of their injuries. Let us use our knowledge and experience to help you obtain economic and non-economic damages on behalf of your injuries!
Contact a Lubbock medical malpractice lawyer from our firm for a free initial consultation.
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