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Our health care system requires us to place our faith in doctors and nurses, often during the most challenging times in our lives. Their training and experience guide hundreds of decisions every day. While many of those help us, some mistakes happen. When they do, hiring a medical malpractice lawyer might be an option to hold negligent providers accountable.
Some common hospital medical malpractice errors include:
- Failure to diagnose or to properly diagnose an illness, heart attack, or stroke
- Failure to treat an illness
- Incorrect treatment of a diagnosed illness
- Improper use of anesthesia
- Improper administration of drugs
- Failure to order proper tests
- Failure to consult with a specialist
- Failure to monitor a patient
- Failure to stabilize a patient
- Improper use of a medical device
- Surgical errors and anesthesia errors
- Failure to obtain the informed consent of a patient
- Birth injury or birth trauma due to obstetrical physician, nursing, or hospital negligence
- Injury to mother or child during a VBAC (vaginal birth after C-Section)
- Failure of hospital staff to properly interpret doctors’ orders on patient charts, resulting in incorrect administration of medications or treatments
- Unnecessary surgical procedures
- Hospital malpractice
- Nursing home abuse
The most common of these errors are misdiagnosis, failure to accurately diagnose, and delayed diagnosis. Many of these cases involve cancer and heart attacks. For example, a doctor may diagnose a patient with a less serious condition and by the time the real condition is realized, the patient’s condition has worsened. When looking for a New Jersey medical malpractice lawyer to handle these situations that often are difficult to prove, it is important to look into how much experience the attorney has with similar cases.
In some cases, a doctor or medical specialist may be at fault while in others, a nurse, midwife, or other medical assistant may bear responsibility. You may also be able to pursue legal action against a hospital, nursing home, or other medical facility. In any event, medical malpractice claims can be difficult to prove, as you must show that an error occurred and you suffered damages because of that error.
Contact a New Jersey medical malpractice lawyer at Aiello, Harris, Abate, Law Group PC at (908) 561-5577 or contact us online at any of our North and Central New Jersey law offices for a free consultation.
