Medical Malpractice Cases in 2022
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Medical Malpractice Cases in 2022
When you receive medical care, you expect the healthcare provider to make you feel better, not worse. Unfortunately, medical malpractice remains a serious problem in the United States. More than 250,000 patients die each year because of an act of medical negligence, which makes medical malpractice the third most frequent cause of death. Medical malpractice is one of many practices that fall under the category of personal injury law. Like other types of personal injury law, medical malpractice cases require proving the presence of the four elements of negligence.
Proving negligence for medical malpractice cases in 2022 starts by demonstrating a healthcare provider had a duty of care to protect you from harm. Once your attorney demonstrates a healthcare provider had the responsibility to protect you from getting sick or sustaining an injury, your legal counsel must show the healthcare provider violated the duty of care doctrine by committing at least one act of negligence. The third and fourth elements of proving negligence are presenting persuasive evidence that negligence caused you harm and that the harm you endured produced financial losses.
As the most complex type of personal injury law to litigate, a medical malpractice case requires the legal support of an experienced personal injury lawyer. An experienced attorney knows how to collect and organize the physical evidence necessary to file a convincing civil lawsuit that seeks monetary damages. Your personal injury attorney also understands the medical terminology that applies to your case. For example, if a healthcare provider misdiagnosed your medical condition, your lawyer must be able to explain to the judge hearing your case the type of diagnosis you received, as well as the type of diagnosis you should have received.
Since 1988, the personal injury attorneys at Morgan and Morgan have represented clients who needed legal support for a medical malpractice case. We have recovered more than $20 billion in monetary damages for our clients, with a significant percentage of the compensation coming from medical malpractice cases. With more than 150 properly credentialed investigators located throughout the country, you can rest assured that your personal injury attorney gathers the physical evidence you need to file a convincing civil lawsuit that seeks monetary damages.
Learn about how Morgan and Morgan handles medical malpractice cases in 2022 by scheduling a free case evaluation with a personal injury attorney.
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What Types of Medical Malpractice Cases Do Morgan and Morgan Litigate the Most Often?
To prove one or more acts of medical malpractice, the personal injury attorney that you hire from Morgan and Morgan must first determine what type of medical negligence your healthcare provider committed.
Misdiagnosis
The treatment program a healthcare provider devises for you depends mostly on the results of diagnostic tests. Just a small mistake made during the running of diagnostic tests can lead to receiving improper treatment. Misdiagnosis also includes failing to recognize the signs of an illness or injury, and then ordering the wrong types of diagnostic tests. For example, if a healthcare provider fails to detect the signs of a fractured wrist, the healthcare provider might not run the right type of scan that detects fractured bones.
Misdiagnosing an illness or injury has become a serious problem in the American healthcare industry. According to the latest data released between 2013 and 2017, more than 30 percent of all medical malpractice lawsuits involved some form of misdiagnosis.
Surgical Errors
You might have read a story or two about a patient discovering that a healthcare provider left a medical device or instrument in the patient’s body after surgery. Although this surgical error lies on the extreme side of the medical malpractice spectrum, surgical errors remain one of the most common types of medical negligence cases. Examples of surgical errors include performing surgery on the wrong area of the body and using the wrong medical devices and instruments to complete a surgical maneuver. Another example of a surgical error is performing surgery on the wrong patient.
Surgical errors sometimes cause fatal injuries that require the legal support of a Morgan and Morgan wrongful death attorney.
Mistakes Made With Prescription Medications
Medical malpractice cases in 2022 have seen an uptick in the number of prescription medication mistakes. The most common type of prescription medication error is prescribing the wrong drug, which can cause a severe enough reaction to place a patient in a life-threatening medical condition. Another common type of drug prescription error involves recommending a patient take larger doses of a drug than they should take. Whether a patient takes too many or not enough pills, a prescription medication mistake can cause a considerable amount of damage to the body.