Bronx Medical Malpractice Lawyer

Medical Malpractice Can be a Life Changing Event

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Physician Medical malpractice is more common than one might expect.  When it takes place it can result in serious personal injuries often causing life-changing injuries that the patient may never fully recover from. If you have suffered from medical malpractice, dental malpractice, a nurse’s malpractice, or any other medical provider’s malpractice, then give our lawyers a call to set up your confidential consultation.  We can be reached at 800-893-9645.

What Is Medical Malpractice?

Medical malpractice can take many forms.  In general, it is what happens when a person in the medical profession breaches the required standard of care for a patient.  This lowering of standards results in the patient being injured. Under New York law, a patient who has been a victim of medical malpractice may have a legal right to claim compensation to make them whole again for their pain and suffering.

What is Standard of Care?

In the medical profession there are acceptable ways of administering treatment to patients who have been inflicted with a particular medical condition. The medical practitioner is required to adopt the methods that are used as standard practice when handling a patient who has been diagnosed with a specific medical condition.

Some examples of Medical Malpractice are:

• Prescription Errors
• Adverse drug reactions (when 2 drugs used together cause side effects)
• Foreign object left inside after surgery
• Wrongful organ removal
• Misdiagnosis
• Mishandling of a Birth

Medical Malpractice Statistics

Up to 98,000 Americans who are in hospitals or in the care of a medical provider die every year as a result of medical errors and negligence. Many medical malpractice lawsuits are due to misdiagnosis or failure to diagnose. There are five medical conditions that are frequently misdiagnosed and these are:

• Appendicitis
• Lung cancer
• Breast cancer
• Colon cancer
• Heart attack

Medical malpractice can be very difficult to prove as medical practitioners do not readily admit making mistakes. Therefore, anyone who thinks that he or she has been injured as a result of medical malpractice that was not his or her fault should contact our New York personal injury attorney immediately.

Birth Injuries Can Be Complex

There are some complex but important medical malpractice errors, such as birth injuries which in turn causes birth defects. These are almost always life changing events for the baby and the child but are hard to prove as the doctor handling the birth has to be shown to have breached the expected standard of care. In addition to proving that the doctor breached his or her standard of care, you must prove that this breach directly caused the injury.

If you believe you are a victim of medical malpractice you have no time to lose as New York has in place a statute of limitations. This means that you have a limited time to put in a claim for compensation. Once the deadline has been reached then you have lost your opportunity and will have to live with the financial hardship that has resulted from medical malpractice.

Claiming compensation in New York

If you have been a victim of medical malpractice our personal injury attorneys may be able to file a civil lawsuit that will include compensatory damages which covers the cost of medical treatment and loss of wages while recovering and non-economic damages, which is a payment to cover the added pain and suffering due to the injury. Punitive damages may be available too.