If you have been injured to to the negligence of a physician, hospital or healthcare provider you may be able to obtain compensation for you injuries and damages.
Not all bad results from medical treatment or surgery are due to negligence. Healthcare providers are only negligent if their treatment falls below accepted standards of medical care. You don’t have to prove that your physician is a bad person or that he or she intentionally injured you. You only have to prove that the physician was negligent in deviating from the acceptable standard of medical care. For example, good people are negligent every day in causing automobile collisions. A driver is sick or had a stressful day at work and is not as alert as normal and as a result fails to maintain proper attention and causes a collision. While these drivers are not bad people, they are “inattentive,” and therefore, negligent drivers and as a result of their inattentiveness have caused injuries and damages. Most people would agree that these drivers should be held accountable for the damages that they cause by their inattentiveness.
In the same way, there are rules of the road for physicians. There are medical stop signs in the form of acceptable “standards of care,” and if a physician runs a medical stop sign, or violates an accepted “rule of the road” they may be held accountable for the injuries and damages caused by their violations.
If you believe that you were injured or damaged due to the negligence of a physician, you may have a claim for your injuries and damages consisting of compensation for pain, suffering and disability and reimbursement of past and future medical expenses and lost wages.
If you believe that you have a claim for for substandard medical care and treatment, you should contact an attorney as soon as possible to have your case reviewed because there are statutes of limitation which provide that your claims must be brought within a certain period of time or they will be forever barred. The attorney will be able to help determine if you have a valid claim.
Finally, it is extremely important that you contact an attorney who has experience in handling medical malpractice claims. These claims are some of the most complex, challenging and expensive claims to handle and it is important that you select an attorney with training and experience that you can count on to guide you through this difficult legal process