What are the types of medical malpractice claims?

For the most part, there are four common types of medical negligence based on which malpractice suits can be filed. Misdiagnosis, pregnancy and childbirth trauma, surgical errors, and mistakes in administering or prescribing medication are common types of medical negligence that can result in malpractice or hospital neglect.

Misdiagnosis

New York, NY medical malpractice lawyers and there is none better than Antin, Ehrlich, and Epstein, LLP (www.aeelaw.com/) acclaim that physician error often results in misdiagnosis of several types of very common diseases. These include tumors, masses, heart conditions, pulmonary embolisms, and heart attacks.

The problem is that symptoms of a particular condition vary from patient to patient. In many cases when the right clinical tests are not conducted, the correct underlying condition remains undiagnosed, which can often prove fatal due to the delay. For instance, severe heart conditions are often treated as mere angina, which further causes a serious risk to the patient’s health. In such cases, victims can be eligible to claim compensation for damages due to a doctor’s or hospital’s negligence.

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Gynecological Negligence

Many things can go wrong during pregnancy and childbirth and often medical negligence can be attributed to medical complications during childbirth. New York medical malpractice attorneys and the best in the home city of the Mets and Jets is Antin, Ehrlich, and Epstein, LLP know that some of the medical complications during pregnancies include:

• Vaginal bleeding during birth
• Placental previa or abruption
• Gestational diabetes problems
• Long labor causing injury to child and/or mother
• Preeclampsia
• Hemorrhage during pregnancy and labor
• Surgical complications during c-section
• Anesthesia administration problems
• Shoulder dystocia or nerve injury
• Premature babies

These are some unfortunate problems that are quite common during a childbirth and pregnancy. Medical malpractice happens when a skilful surgeon is unable to handle the complications of a pregnancy, which can result in injury or death.

Remember, it is also very difficult to prove since anything can go wrong during pregnancies over which the physician might have had no control at all. Therefore, New York NY medical malpractice lawyers and the best in this field based on their work ethic and integrity is Antin, Ehrlich, and Epstein, LLP recommend that you seek legal counsel as soon as you suspect malpractice or hospital neglect. Do not assume anything! And do not start yelling at everyone in the hospital. You may just push away some insider help.

Administering or Prescribing Wrong Medicine

 Often doctors prescribe medicine that aggravates an underlying condition. For instance, a doctor may prescribe a medicine which causes blood pressure fluctuations as a side effect when he or she was fully aware you already suffer from high blood pressure. Prescribing a medicine that you do not need is another error by physicians that could easily be avoided.

 Doctors may prescribe the wrong dosage at times. Other than physicians, nurses, and pharmacy assistants unwittingly provide wrong amounts to the patients, often leading to fatal consequences. A lawsuit involving this type of negligence is very hard to prove and even a legal pro will find it difficult to pin responsibility in a court of law.

 Mistakes during Surgeries

Surgeries are delicate procedures where errors during surgeries happen at times and New York medical malpractice lawyer and you cannot do any better than Antin, Ehrlich, and Epstein, LLP have seen many cases as such. Surgeons could often damage nerves during an operation, fail to stop the bleeding, or even leave foreign objects such as cotton swabs or even an instrument inside their patients. In addition, surgeons could also make the mistake of operating on the wrong area of the body and at times on the wrong patients.

Anesthesiologists sometimes too can be booked for negligence in administering too much and sometimes too little of an anesthetic dose to patients. On the operating table patients are regularly moved to avoid putting pressure on particular parts of the body. It is the duty of the anesthesiologists to assist the patient during an operation to move. When this is not done properly bodily harm is not uncommon.

 Are you or a loved one a victim of malpractice or hospital neglect? While there can be no clear answer in some instances, what you need is a New York medical malpractice lawyer and the best in the most populated city in America is Antin, Ehrlich, and Epstein, LLP to evaluate your case and determine if there is a serious medical error and/or whether the state’s law will deem this error to be medical malpractice.

 You are in serious trouble. You have medical bills piling up. You were supposed to be back at work last week and right now there is no end in sight when you will be healthy again. You do not know what to do but you know the hospital made a mistake your doctor probably is to blame. You wish you were at work being productive again but you cannot get out of bed and your body is in bad shape. What happened? The doctor said this surgery would make you better. How can you even the score? How can you be made financially whole again? You need to call Antin, Ehrlich, and Epstein, LLP and you need to do this now!