Emergency Room Negligence
Could your hospital's emergency room kill you? Too often, when a hospital's emergency room staff fails to protect its patients from further injury or risk of death, the hospital staff has committed medical malpractice. Everyone in the hospital's emergency room staff, including doctors, nurses, pharmacists, x-ray or laboratory technicians, is accountable for mistakes that result in serious harm or death to a patient.
There are many ways in which a hospital's emergency room staff can be negligent, including:
- Misdiagnosing a patient
- Failing to diagnose a patient properly (such as a heart attack or appendicitis)
- Providing improper treatment
- Delaying care
- Performing a faulty triage evaluation
- Failing to fully examine and treat a patient's condition
- Failing to order appropriate laboratory or other tests
- Incorrectly reading x-rays, MRIs and other diagnostic tests
- Failing to obtain a consultation with a specialist
- Providing contaminated blood transfusions
- Prescribing inappropriate medicine for the patient's condition or prescribing the wrong dose of medicine
When a hospital's emergency room staff provides inadequate care that permits a patient's condition to unnecessarily worsen, or hastens the patient's death, the hospital is negligent. The lawyers at Pogust Braslow & Millrood regularly represent clients in medical malpractice claims that arise because a hospital emergency room's negligence caused the patient's condition to worsen or resulted in the patient's premature death.
At Pogust Braslow & Millrood, Protecting Consumers Is Our Primary Goal. We recognize that a hospital's emergency room staff is under an obligation to protect its patients and make sure that they do not suffer any preventable injuries that can result in serious harm or death. We thoroughly investigate every claim so our clients are assured that we will determine who was responsible, and seek compensation for their pain and suffering and other injuries.
When you need an attorney who will care for you and handle your hospital's emergency room medical malpractice claim, you should immediately contact the attorneys at Pogust Braslow & Millrood. Just fill out this form, click here to send us an email or call us at (610) 941-4204. Take the first step toward protecting yourself and the ones you love by contacting us immediately.
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