INJURY BLOG

When you go to a doctor, hospital or seek another type of medical care for a potential health issue, you have an expectation of professional, quality care. Even though most nurses, doctors, and other medical professionals do everything they can to provide quality care to their patients, mistakes can still occur. Sometimes, the mistakes cause life-changing effects for not only the patient but their family. The medical professional may be considered liable for your injuries if you aren’t treated correctly.

You can experience life-changing experience when it comes to errors with medical prescriptions. The fact is you can make a compensation claim if you have suffered due to medication errors. The law office of Fetterman & Associates will offer you legal advocacy in West Palm Beach, Port St. Lucie and the surrounding areas if you want to know how to receive compensation for your care and injuries. Most people put a lot of faith in medical professionals to appropriately determine

Patients can help avoid malpractice by becoming their own advocates and learning everything they can about their specific medical conditions, researching all prescribed medications and other treatments, and investigating doctors before deciding on which one is the best fit for them. Understand that medical malpractice is not your fault. A health care professional’s negligence, whether by act or omission, is his own responsibility. However, it’s still important to be your own advocate by educating yourself about your medical condition, fully

You go to your doctor or the hospital because you are sick or injured, and you put your trust into the care of medical professionals. While to err is human, there are instances where medical mistakes can lead to serious injury or worse, death. According to NPR, medical malpractice errors are now the third-leading cause of deaths in the United States, making it even more important that consumers are aware of these errors. Misdiagnosis Medicine is a diagnostic process, and

News channel WWLTV reported recently on a Children’s Hospital admittance to a mistake that cost five young patients their lives.  The hospital confirmed that the patients contracted a fatal fungus from bed linens at the facility.  In other words, these wrongful deaths could have been prevented.   The fungal infection, called mucormycosis, killed the five children five years ago.  Each child was already fighting serious diseases before being infected.  The outbreak stretched over a one-year period between 2008 and 2009.