Emergency Room Errors: Medical Malpractice
When you place yourself or a loved one in the hands of medical professionals in an emergency room or hospital, that facility has a duty to assure proper care and safety. If they fail to meet expected standards of care, serious injury or wrongful death may be the result.
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Emergency rooms and hospitals are busy places trying to deal with a lot of different patients at the same time. But that is no excuse for errors. Caring for injured and sick people is what these professionals are trained for and it is what the systems in the hospital have been designed to deal with.
At Brindisi, Murad, Brindisi, Pearlman, Julian & Pertz in upstate New York, our medical malpractice lawyers have many years of experience investigating and studying how ERs and hospitals work. When we have questions, we have medical experts we can call on to review specific situations.
- When a mistake occurs in an ER, a traumatically injured patient may not receive the proper care in a timely manner. That can mean serious injury or death.
- If an emergency room doctor diagnoses meningitis as flu or a heart attack as indigestion, the patient may die.
- If a hospital fails to monitor a patient, that patient may have an adverse reaction to medicine or a sudden change in condition that goes unnoticed.
- A lack of careful hygiene and sterilization can carry infections through a hospital, infecting patients who are already seriously ill.
When lives are at stake, professional medical personnel should make every effort to prevent mistakes. When they do not, contact a medical malpractice attorney for a free consultation.
