Medical Malpractice

Do You Need a Medical Malpractice Attorney?

Medical malpractice can cause serious injuries and even wrongful deaths. Every year, many patients in Birmingham and across Alabama suffer from medical errors, misdiagnoses, and other preventable mistakes. These can include unnecessary surgeries, medication errors, nursing mistakes, and failures to properly diagnose and treat conditions.

What is Medical Malpractice?

Medical malpractice occurs when a healthcare provider fails to meet the industry “standard of care” leading to patient injury. This standard is the level of care, skill, and diligence that similar professionals would provide in similar circumstances. For example, if a doctor fails to notify a patient of a lab result that indicates cancer, and the patient is harmed as a result, this could be grounds for a medical malpractice lawsuit.

Examples of Medical Malpractice:

• • Failure to order proper tests
  • Misinterpreting or ignoring symptoms
  • Failure to diagnose a condition
  • Misreading lab results
  • Administering the wrong medication or dosage
  • Surgical errors, like operating on the wrong site
  • Performing unnecessary surgeries
  • Prematurely discharging a patient
  • Ignoring a patient’s medical history
  • Leaving foreign objects in the body after surgery