Your treating medical providers owe you, their patient, a duty of care right from the start. This is true when you walk into your primary care doctor’s visit, it is true when you are getting lab work done, and it is true if you need emergency treatment in a hospital emergency room. While emergency rooms […]

Doctors and other medical professionals have a duty to patients to provide them with a certain standard of care in all aspects of treatment. This includes prescribing and dispensing both the proper dosage and type of medication. When healthcare professionals fail to provide patients with the requisite standard of care, there is an error in […]

Surgery is a big deal. It is a major medical procedure where you are trusting your doctor and a team of medical professionals with cutting into your body in the name of improving your health in one way or another. This is a substantial amount of trust. Think about the anxiety a person feels going […]

Hospital emergency rooms are often chaotic. They can be crowded. They can be understaffed. They can be overwhelming. All this considered, it may not surprise you to hear that medical mistakes are all too common in emergency room settings. Because they are common, however, it does not mean that they are acceptable. In fact, mistakes […]

A medical malpractice claim allows a person who has been harmed by medical negligence to seek compensation for the losses they have sustained. A victim of substandard medical care can needlessly suffer permanent, painful, and debilitating health consequences all because a doctor or other medical professional failed to provide them with the level of care […]