Medical Malpractice and negligence is killing 225,000 people every year in the United States. From surgical mistakes, to birth injuries, to medication errors and beyond, medical malpractice has become the third largest killer in the nation, trumped only by cancer and heart disease. Millions more who do not die from the medical negligence they experience are injured - sometimes permanently.
Are you one of the millions of patients suffering from an injury or a loss as a result of a physician's mistake? Have you done anything about it? A medical malpractice lawyer can help you and your family cope with a malpractice injury. The right attorney will review your case and provide you with a free consultation to discuss the details of your potential lawsuit and fill you in on your rights.
LegalView is sponsored by a network of personal injury law firms across the United States. This website has been created to provide you with information and education on medical malpractice: what it is, how it happens, who is liable, and how you can recover compensation for medical negligence that has affected your life. As you read the content and learn more about this form of negligence, if you feel that you need to speak to a lawyer feel free to submit your information on the contact form provided. LegalView will provide your information to a qualified medical malpractice attorney in your area.
Medical malpractice occurs when a patient suffers unnecessary injury or death as a result of a negligent or incompetent action by a medical professional. A simple mistake by a health care professional is not enough to warrant the malpractice label. Some examples of actions, or failure to act, that constitute medical malpractice include: failure to diagnose, or misdiagnosis of, a disease; failure to provide medically appropriate treatment for a disease; unreasonable delay in treating a diagnosed disease; surgical error; incorrectly prescription of medication; and failure to obtain a patient's informed consent to a medical procedure.
United States Healthcare Most Expensive and Error-Ridden In The Developed World
A survey conducted in late 1995 found that health care in the United States is both the worst and the most prone to error in the world. The survey, which consulted nearly 7,000 patients in Canada, Germany, United Kingdom, New Zealand, Australia and the United States, made a staggering conclusion: a full third of Americans who seek medical treatment experience errors, be they treatment mistakes, prescription problems, inaccurate laboratory results, or other problems. Rising Malpractice Claims.
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Do Medical Malpractice Damages Caps Really Reduce Premiums for Doctors. Caps on potential economic damages paid in medical malpractice law suits have become more and more common over the past two decades, with most states enacting some kind of malpractice caps. These caps were instated in the hopes of reducing skyrocketing medical malpractice insurance premiums for doctors, who insisted that rising premiums prevented them from providing medical treatment and care of the highest quality and even drove them out of business.
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