Medical malpractice results primarily when a health care provider fails to perform accepted standards of medical practice. Some factors may include misdiagnosis, negligence, mismanagement, or a mistake made during surgery or treatment causing a new ailment or injury.
Medical malpractice occurs far too frequently in Florida. We all experience a strong emotion of suffering along with disloyalty any time someone you care about is needlessly injured by healthcare providers to whom we have trusted our health and wellness or the well-being of our loved ones. Unfortunately, many individuals have experienced careless medical treatment.
We entrust our lives and health to doctors, hospitals, nurses and testing facilities. For the most part, these professionals ably address the varied medical problems that we face daily. Fortunately, in this county we are blessed with the best medical care in the world and the medical standards for conduct of these professionals reflect such.
However, there are times when we go to our health care providers and are not satisfied with the results. Medical malpractice is simply when a health care professional, doctor, nurse, technician, or hospital makes a mistake that results in injury or death. Please keep in mind that not all unexpected or bad results are medical malpractice. To constitute medical malpractice, the health care professional’s conduct must have been below the accepted standard of care for his profession.
YOUR LEGAL OPTIONS WITH MEDICAL MALPRACTICE
- Question the health care professional as to specifically what is going on with you or your loved one. If you feel you are not getting straight answers, call me.
- If the circumstances concerning the care you or your loved one has received is not want you expected, call me.
- If nurses and aides are not timely and regularly checking on you or your loved one and suffering or injury result, call me.
- If you are not seeing a medical doctor but a physician assistant or nurse and are not getting the care you feel is necessary, call me.
- And, you or your loved one has suffered a significant and life threatening injury or death, call me.
What is Medical Malpractice?
In Florida, medical malpractice or medical negligence is most likely the breakdown of the healthcare service provider to respond in accordance with those recognized industry-standards of good care within the healthcare community. Quite simply, whenever a physician, nurse as well as other health care service provider is negligent and does not act as would any sensibly judicious medical care provider from the same area of expertise and leads to a patient to experience serious injury or wrongful death, the particular health care provider could be held accountable for inflicting injury upon their patients.
What Types of Medical Malpractice Cases Are There?
There’s no limit for the types of malpractice which can be committed as a result of careless healthcare providers, neither to the type of case that may be brought due to this fact. Medical doctor mistakes, nursing oversight, radiologist gaffe, healthcare specialist or even medical center error may result in these types of typical types of medical malpractice cases.
Extensive research and expert testimony is required for medical malpractice claims. There are many areas of liability, and for that reason I recommend that you contact me to discuss your case. For more than 30 years I have successfully prosecuted claims against health care providers.
Under the laws of most states, there are special laws and procedures which govern how and when you can make a claim or lawsuit against a health care professional. If you believe that you, a family member, or friend has been victim of medical malpractice, contact me at The Hewko Firm.
If you or someone you know has been injured or killed in a Medical Malpractice injury and you would like feedback regarding your legal rights, contact Florida Medical Malpractice Attorney Eric Hewko at The Hewko Firm (Big E Law) by calling 1-800-BIG-E-LAW (1-800-244-3529) or 561-776-9400 for your FREE Consultation.
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