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With many more people dying and suffering from medical errors, there’s a growing need for medical malpractice lawyers to represent these victims. According to a 2023 study by Johns Hopkins Medicine, diagnostic errors contribute to an estimated 371,000 deaths and 424,000 permanent disabilities annually in the United States. These figures suggest that medical errors remain a significant public health concern, potentially ranking among the leading causes of death—even exceeding automobile accidents in annual fatalities. Before the coronavirus pandemic, it was, in fact, the third leading cause of death in the U.S..
Although medical error is not regularly acknowledged as a leading cause of death in the U.S., the victims of these errors and medical malpractice attorneys have long recognized the devastating consequences of medical negligence. When a negligent act or omission by a doctor, nurse or other healthcare professional harms a patient, the injuries are often life-threatening and the long-term consequences can be life-altering. If you or a family member has been injured by medical negligence or error, you do not have to face all of the challenges alone. The compassionate, accomplished Orlando and Casselberry medical malpractice lawyers at Warner & Warner want to help ease your burden. We can help you hold the responsible party accountable for negligence and help you obtain the financial compensation you deserve for your medical expenses, pain, suffering, and losses.
Types of Cases Our Medical Malpractice Lawyers Handle
In Florida, in order to be considered medical malpractice, an injured person must show that a wrongful or negligent act occurred and that it caused an injury or death. Specifically, when a doctor, nurse or other healthcare provider is negligent and fails to act as a reasonably careful medical provider of the same specialty would act in the same situation and causes a patient to suffer serious injury or wrongful death, the doctor, nurse or hospital may be held liable.
Errors and negligence on the part of doctors, nurses, radiologists, medical technicians and hospitals result in these types of medical malpractice every day:
Failing to Diagnose / Delayed Diagnosis / Misdiagnosis
If doctors fail to listen to patients, fail to take a complete medical history, fail to order the correct diagnostic tests or fail to examine test results and/or diagnose a condition, patients can suffer injury due to lack of treatment or treatment for the incorrect condition. In cases of serious infection, heart attack, stroke, aneurysm, auto-immune disease or cancer, the consequences can be very serious.
Medication Errors
More than a million Americans suffer adverse reactions or complications from medication errors each year. These errors are made throughout the medication-use system, from prescribing to dispensing to administering medication. If the error occurred at a pharmacy level, our pharmacy malpractice lawyers can investigate the specific retail error.
Surgery Mistakes
Medical malpractice can occur in many different ways during surgery: when a surgical team operates on the wrong side of a patient’s body, cuts or severs an organ or nerve, leaves an instrument or other foreign object in a patient, causes internal bleeding or fails to detect internal bleeding and treat it in time to prevent permanent injury or death.
Anesthesia Errors
Anesthesiologists and nurse anesthetists play a major role in keeping patients safe during many medical procedures and surgery. If they make mistakes, patients can suffer serious injuries that lead to aspiration, pneumonia, hypoxic brain damage, coma and death.
Post-Operative Errors
After surgery, patients have to be monitored very closely to make sure there are no problems. If they are not monitored effectively, serious complications such as internal bleeding, infection, changes in vital signs and kidney failure can occur.
Nursing Errors
Nurses play a very important role in patient safety and health. If, for example, they do not effectively monitor and report a patient’s vital signs, place IV lines improperly or make medication errors, patients can be seriously injured.
Radiologist Errors
When radiologists misinterpret x-rays, mammograms, CT scans and MRI’s, among other diagnostic scans, patients can suffer serious consequences.
Birth Injuries
When OBGYNs do not treat toxemia or pregnancy-induced hypertension, when nurses do not closely monitor women and fetuses during labor and delivery and when doctors or nurses make mistakes during delivery, serious, life-altering birth injuries can occur.
Kidney Dialysis Errors
Negligent dialysis involving medication errors, dialyzer errors, excess blood loss, dialysis machine malfunctioning, improper care of dialysis machines, contamination of the dialysis lines, failing to monitor patients’ blood pressure and other vital signs can lead to serious infections and other life-threatening conditions.
Emergency Room Errors
Errors and negligence on the part of emergency room doctors and staff can result in life-threatening complications due to the high-pressure nature of ER care.
Hospital Negligence
This includes failures in administrative protocols, staffing issues, and equipment maintenance that directly contribute to patient harm.
Wrongful Death
When medical errors result in fatal outcomes, our wrongful death lawyers are prepared to seek justice for the surviving family members.
How a Medical Malpractice Lawyer Calculates Your Damages
If you or a family member has been injured because of a medical error or medical negligence, you may be able to file a medical malpractice claim against the responsible healthcare provider(s) to hold them accountable and to secure the financial compensation you deserve for your physical injuries, losses, physical pain and emotional suffering. This compensation could include payment for:
- Medical bills: Existing and future expenses for hospital care, office visits, medications, diagnostic procedures, medical equipment, etc..
- Care expenses: Rehabilitation and home health care.
- Lost income and earning potential: Lost wages due to time off work and diminished earning capacity if you are no longer able to work in the same capacity.
- Diminished quality of life: Capacity to enjoy life and fully participate in normal daily activities as you did before the injury.
- Physical and emotional pain and suffering: Both physical and emotional trauma resulting from the negligence.
Statute of Limitations for Florida Medical Malpractice
Florida medical malpractice laws establish strict statutes of limitations for bringing cases against medical professionals. Although the timeframes can be a moving target depending on the specific circumstances of the case, the standard time period during which a medical malpractice claim can be filed is two years from the date of the act or omission that caused the injury. Because the two-year deadline can be a moving target, consulting an experienced medical malpractice lawyer immediately is the only way to prevent the statute of limitations from barring your claim forever.
Contact Our Experienced Orlando and Casselberry Medical Malpractice Attorneys
If you believe you or a loved one has been the victim of medical malpractice, please contact the experienced attorneys at Warner & Warner. We would be honored to discuss and investigate your case and advise you on your best course of action. If pursuing a claim is advisable, you can count on a dedicated medical malpractice lawyer from our team to support you every step of the way, guiding you through the legal process with the knowledge, resources, and professional expertise needed to pursue justice. Call us at 321-972-1889 to schedule your free consultation.
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