Any deviation from normal and conscientious treatment can be dangerous for the patient’s life, but it can also result in a lawsuit against the medical professional. Below we list a few of the most common medical malpractice claims.
Most Common Medical Malpractice Claims are:
- Very late diagnosis or completely wrong diagnosis,
- Failure to treat the problem,
- Errors in prescribed medicines,
- Surgical errors,
- Injuries during childbirth.
Do you know what medical malpractice claim actually is?
Wrong diagnosis or very late diagnosis
When it comes to the total percentage of malpractice errors, approximately one-third of filed lawsuits are about misdiagnosis. Or about a diagnosis that was established very late.
Wrong diagnoses made by a medical expert or a very late diagnosis can lead to a major deterioration of the patient’s condition. And in the last case it can mean death.
Why can the diagnosis be late or wrong?
- The results may have been misread in the laboratory,
- lost results of a blood test or someone else’s examination,
- errors when reading the test, etc.
A timely and correct diagnosis can be vital for patients. If there is a mistake when it comes to diagnosis, it can have fatal consequences and the one who was negligent and unscrupulous must bear the responsibility.
Failure to treat a patient
This type of negligent treatment includes the appearance of infections in the patient, which can have consequences such as the eventual appearance of various infections, sepsis, tuberculosis and AIDS.
Surgical errors
Although it sounds incredible when you hear that a medical professional mistakenly operated on the wrong patient, or operated on the wrong part of the body – it unfortunately happens more often than you think. For example, it happens that instead of the left knee, the doctor operates on the right knee. Performing surgery on the wrong person who does not need surgery at all. It also happens that during surgery, doctors leave part of the surgical equipment inside the human body.
Although medical professionals make great efforts to prevent these terrifying mistakes from happening, they do happen.
If there was a surgical error, you have the right to seek compensation for that negligence.
Injuries during childbirth
There is an incredible number of accusations in the world against gynecologists and their services for the benefit of the patient and for negligence and negligent treatment. The information given by mothers after giving birth is really scary, and when it comes to the field of gynecology, there are many problems on so many levels. Medical malpractice during childbirth, in addition to a series of numerous consequences, can lead to certain conditions such as nerve damage, spinal cord injury, cerebral palsy and cephalohematoma.
If you experience malpractice or negligence during childbirth, you should contact a lawyer immediately. Because no mother or newborn deserves cruel treatment.
Mistakes with prescription drugs
If a medical professional prescribes the wrong medicine or does not prescribe the one the patient needs at all, it can cause many complications. In addition, the wrong doses and the wrong way of administering the drug can have a fatal outcome for some people, and this is negligence during treatment.
The Difference Between Negligence and Malpractice check out HERE.
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