Medical and Dental Malpractice

Before you initiate a lawsuit, it is wise to have strong evidence of malpractice prior to making the allegation. You may already have noticed that people in the medical profession tend to stick together and cover for one another, so a suspicion of malpractice may be hard to prove.

Medical negligence and malpractice can occur in the practitioner’s office, a hospital, a nursing home, an assisted living facility, a birthing center, or a free clinic, and can be inflicted by any care-giving institution or practitioner. Medical malpractice can result from human error, indifference, inattentiveness, negligence, and/or malice. In other words, malpractice can be accidental or intentional, but either way, it is wrongdoing that must be confronted, stopped and disciplined.

Doctors, dentists, nurses, nursing assistants, hygienists, psychologists, therapists, pharmacists, dieticians, emergency medical personnel, laboratory technicians, and others who diagnose, treat and provide care to patients fall within the realm of those who may be capable of malpractice. The following conditions and signs might indicate a need for investigation to determine if malpractice has occurred:

• Birth injury or errors leading to conditions such as cerebral palsy, Erb’s palsy, and brain damage.
• Failure to Accurately Diagnose – A physician can be held accountable if a patient is treated for a disease he/she doesn’t have and the treatment causes injury, or if he fails to diagnose serious problems such as appendicitis or cancer that the patient does have.
• Post-operative complications due to error, negligence, improper surgical technique, or lack of adequate surgical skill on the part of the surgeon, operating room and/or recovery room staff.
• Medication errors – A nurse administers the wrong medication, or the wrong dosage of a medication, or a doctor prescribes the wrong medication or the wrong dosage.
• Extended care (nursing homes, home care, institutional care) that results in excessive bed sores, deprivation of food or water, excessive physical restraint, over medication or sedation, physical abuse, inadequate security to prevent wandering off of patients with dementia, bacterial infections, assault and rape.
• Romantic or sexual involvement between a psychologist or psychotherapist and the patient, or unauthorized use of hypnosis to obtain sexual favors.
• Dental malpractice including permanent or temporary injuries to the nerves of the tongue, jaw, chin and lips, including lingual nerve injury (tongue) and inferior alveolar nerve damage (lips, chin and jaw); molestation of a patient under anesthesia, infection due to unclean instruments, and unauthorized or unnecessary treatment, or delay of diagnosis and treatment.

Malpractice investigations conducted by our investigators will include interviews of all those involved in the care of injured party, a complete review of all medical records to locate inconsistencies, false reporting, and tampering with records, and background investigation of the alleged perpetrator to discover any history of past maltreatment or malpractice allegations. Full, detailed documentation of the investigation will be furnished to you for use as evidence in court, or to force a timely and equitable out of court settlement.

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