Have you suffered from a misdiagnosis or human error on the part of your doctor or medical professional? If so, you deserve to be fully compensated for your loss and injury… You deserve Scottsdale Medical Negligence Attorneys!
Few things in life are as precious as your personal health – and those entrusted to maintain (if not improve) our health are our very own doctors and medical professional.
The doctor/patient relationship is a coveted relationship – one that is established on utmost trust and understanding that if a client is suffering from a medical condition, their doctor or medical professional – with years of medical experience – will be able to adequately diagnose and treat the problem accordingly.
However, even though we trust our doctors and surgeons with our own lives, they are still as fallible as any other human – and when they get it wrong, the patient often pays a very hefty price.
Common causes of medical errors:
There are many reasons why a doctor or medical professional may commit an error. Here are just a few of the most common causes:
- Ill prescribed drugs due to illegible referrals or prescriptions – This is a very common error as most doctor’s have very poor hand writing.
- Incorrect dosage or labeling of prescribed drugs.
- Simple miscommunications between medical professionals, and
- Personal stress, other subjective pressures facing our medical professionals – Watch this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3XxS-p31qY to see just how easy it is for a doctor to misdiagnose a client’s symptoms because of his/her own biases and personal feelings.
So if you have suffered loss due to a negligent doctor or medical professional – how can you ensure you are fully compensated for your loss?
There are two main criteria that need to be established in order to prove medical negligence and malpractice. These are vital to endure the case stands up in court.
- The first criterion is that the doctor or medical professional must make an error. This is usually easy to prove ie. If the doctor made an error you will usually be the first (and hopefully not the last) to know.
- Second, the error must result in the patient losing his/her quality of life. This is a little harder to prove as the law requires that the plaintiff prove a direct loss was caused by the doctor or medical professional’s error.
Therefore, if you have been a victim of medical negligence or malpractice, we must prove that the doctor’s error has caused you severe and/or long-term loss. For example, if a doctor prescribes medication causes other side effects which then result in you losing your memory, sight, speech etc., this satisfies the criteria. If there is no loss or injury caused by the doctor or medical professional’s error – then there is no case.
Of course, every case is not as ‘cut and dry’ as proving error and direct loss. That is why professionals like Scottsdale Medical Negligence Attorneys are vital to successfully winning a compensation claim against a negligent doctors or medical professionals.
A further consideration is the fact that doctors and medical professionals have much deeper pockets than the average patient. This can result in court cases being prolonged and delayed – further ‘bleeding’ victims dry with unnecessary legal fees… Not to mention prolonging the ultimate outcome of re-establishing the victim’s quality of life.
Click here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avqJP_E956o to view a short video of Robert Kleinschmidt – managing Attorney at Scottsdale Medical Negligence Attorneys – talking about what distinguishes Scottsdale Medical Negligence Attorneys to other law firms in this area of expertise.