Common Types of Medical Malpractice Cases That Can Be Brought On Behalf Of Patients Injured By Medical Negligence.
Medical malpractice cases, like other personal injury claims, come in many different shapes and sizes. Medical malpractice cases include all sorts of situations where patients are injured or die as the result of the negligence, mistake, carelessness, error, or wrongdoing of a doctor, physician, medical professional, hospital or other healthcare provider who deviated from generally accepted standards of medical practice or medical care.
Some of the more common types of medical malpractice cases or common medical negligence cases that are being investigated by medical malpractice attorneys and lawyers, include the following kinds of medical malpractice claims:
- misdiagnosis, failure to diagnose or delayed diagnoses of medical conditions, illnesses, ailments, injuries or diseases (e.g., doctor or hospital failed to diagnose cancer, or diagnosed cancer it too late after it had spread)
- mistreatment, failure to treat or delayed treatment of medical conditions, illnesses, ailments, injuries or diseases (e.g., doctor or hospital mistreated an infection or failed to timely treat an infection, or improperly treated burn injuries or negligently performed a dermabrasion)
- surgical errors and surgery mistakes (e.g., surgeon operated on wrong part of body, operated on wrong patient, left instrument in body, etc.)
- medication and prescription drug errors (e.g., doctor prescribed too much medicine or too litte medicine)
- failure to monitor (e.g., doctor or hospital failed to oversee patients conditions)
- lack of informed consent or failure to warn of known risks or complications (e.g., doctor or hospital failed to disclose a risk of elective plastic surgery or cosmetic surgery).
- anesthesia negligence (anethesiologist negligently administered anesthesia and/or failed to monitor the vital signs of a patient under anesthesia)
- birth injury, birth defect and birth trauma (e.g., obstetric and others failed deliver child in a timely manner, failed to properly use foreceps during birth, caused trauma to infant during labor and delivery, etc.)
- misread or mis-interpreted x-rays, ultrasounds and slides
- genetic testing malpractice
- emergency room or ER errors
- patient abondonment (e.g., doctor prematurely terminates caring for a patient)
- other types of medical malpractice cases
If You Were Injured Or A Loved One Died From One of The More Common Types Of Medical Malpractice Cases Described Above, or From Any Other Kind Of Malpractice, Contact An Illinois Medical Malpractice Attorney or Lawyer To See If You May Be Entitled To Compensation From An Illinois Medical Malpractice Case.
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