Greenville Medical Malpractice Lawyer

Doctors, pharmacists, and nurses need to be extremely careful when prescribing and dispensing medications to patients. When they’re careless, patients may be given incorrect drugs, get the wrong dosage, or experience harmful and avoidable side effects. Additionally, patients who are given the wrong drugs or the wrong dosage of a drug may see their condition worsen because it is not being treated correctly.

Surgical mistakes like wrong-side surgeries, wrong-site surgeries, and procedures being performed on the wrong patients are sadly far too common despite these glaring mistakes being considered “never events” by medical experts.

Another surgical mistake is leaving scissors, clamps, sponges, or gauze in a patient after surgery. We are currently representing two women who underwent surgery and the same surgeon left scissors in their bodies. The scissors remained in their bodies for multiple months before it was discovered that the complications they were having post-surgery were from the foreign object left in them.

Putting surgical patients under anesthesia makes procedures easier for both them and doctors. However, patients need to be closely monitored under anesthesia or the consequences can be disastrous. A patient who is not fully under may experience agonizing pain without being able to communicate it, while a patient who is too far under may have trouble waking up or may slip into a coma.

There are many different ways in which emergency room doctors and nurses can make potentially fatal mistakes. These include delayed diagnoses, missed diagnoses, failing to order the right tests, and failing to monitor patients after surgery.

Hospitals and other medical facilities can potentially be held liable for errors made by their doctors, nurses, and other employees. However, proving liability can sometimes be a challenge, especially because doctors are often independent contractors. A few examples of hospital malpractice include failing to properly monitor patients (especially after surgical procedures), medication errors, surgical mistakes, ordering unnecessary or incorrect tests, and lab errors. An experienced medical malpractice attorney can review your medical records to find out what caused your injury and who is responsible for it.

Delaying a diagnosis in a patient or misdiagnosing them with another condition can be doubly harmful to patients because they may receive care that is harmful to them while also preventing them from getting the necessary care they require in the first place. Such errors can have catastrophic consequences and prove fatal in many cases.

Babies in the womb and newborns are particularly susceptible to injuries, which means healthcare providers need to be especially cautious when delivering and caring for babies. Some errors that can lead to a birth injury include doctors not being careful enough with forceps or other birthing tools, failing to order a C-section in time, failing to adequately monitor a mother and child during labor, and being too rough with a mother during labor and delivery.