Why Do You Need A Medical Malpractice Attorney?

Why do you need a medical malpractice attorney?

If you’ve suffered injuries as a result of medical malpractice, it can affect your personal life, your career, and your financial well-being. You may want a medical malpractice attorney to fight for you.

How can a medical malpractice attorney help you when you’ve been injured?

• Offering free consultations
• Determining if the patient or client has a case
• Bringing a lawsuit
• Establish liability by finding evidence to prove that the healthcare provider’s actions fell short of the appropriate standard of medical care
• Taking testimony
• Linking the healthcare provider’s breach of care to the patient’s suffering and harm
• Negotiating damages

What are some examples of professional medical malpractice claims?

• Wrong treatment from misdiagnosis
• Delay in treatment
• Not obtaining consent
• Easily avoided pain or suffering
• Infections from surgery
• Wrong medication or errors
• Negligence
• Poor supervision
• Fraudulent or lack of credentials

Who may be liable?

• Insurance agents
• Doctors
• Nurses
• Other healthcare providers
• Dentists
• Chiropractors
• Pharmacists

Elements of a medical malpractice case:

• There was a doctor-patient relationship
• There was a failure or breach of duty of care (breach of an appropriate standard of medical care)
• This breach or negligence caused the patient harm
• This harm is quantifiable

For more information about the necessity of a medical malpractice attorney, send us a message.