Fairfield County Medical Malpractice Lawyer Holds Hospitals And Staff Accountable
Did you experience unexpected complications during surgery in or near Fairfield County, lose a loved one to an avoidable infection, or suffer because a doctor refused to take your pain seriously? You may be eligible for a medical malpractice claim against the provider responsible; call lawyer Jack O’Donnell to find out.
Few betrayals are as brutal as the failure of those in whose care you have put yourself or a loved one. And yet, each year in Connecticut, hundreds of people are hurt, seriously injured, or even killed by negligent or careless doctors, nurses, and other hospital staff or medical practitioners.
While some of these injuries occur during surgeries where life is already on the line, others can happen during innocuous visits or as the result of basic consultations. Similarly, medical malpractice injuries can be obvious or take months or even years to detect. The good news is that in each of these cases when genuine negligence occurs, you can demand justice and financial compensation.
To file such a claim in Fairfield County, you will need the help of a skilled medical malpractice lawyer. After all, not just anyone is ready or able to take on hospital’s massive insurance companies to demand fair compensation. For that, you need Connecticut medical malpractice and personal injury lawyer Jack O’Donnell.
Why Do You Need A Lawyer To Make A Medical Malpractice Claim?
In an ideal world, doctors would own up to their mistakes, and hospitals or nursing homes gladly pay for the harm done as a result of negligent staff. Unfortunately, in the world we live in, medical care is prohibitively expensive, and the costs of an injury or death, as much as such things can be measured, can be in the millions of dollars. Insurance companies are never happy about handing over that kind of money, even though medical care providers buy insurance specifically for such instances.
Medical Malpractice errors also significantly affect the careers and institutions of the doctors or other practitioners involved. This makes them often unwilling to admit fault or take the blame for unexpected symptoms or deaths. Additionally, for some injuries, the time between the incident that caused them and the development of symptoms can make it hard to prove the doctor, nurse, or other practitioner was to blame.
All of these reasons contribute to making medical malpractice claims some of the most complicated personal injury or wrongful death claims. To avoid being taken advantage of by a hospital or insurance provider in Fairfield County, you need a medical malpractice lawyer who is ready to go to trial if needed to ensure you get fair compensation.
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When Are Medical Malpractice Errors Most Likely To Occur?
While any medical intervention or even consultation can lead to errors, those with the most harmful consequences tend to occur in more serious or vulnerable situations. This means that anyone in Fairfield County from the Gold Coast to downtown Bridgeport can be affected, but elders who need more frequent care and anyone whose health is more fragile may be at greater risk.
The following are all types of situations and medical errors that we have seen or handled malpractice claims in.
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Surgical Errors
Probably the most dramatic and usually the easiest malpractice errors to detect occur during surgical interventions. If you wake from what was supposed to be a simple 1-hour surgery in Bridgeport Hospital three days later only to discover that something went badly wrong, the complication may have been due to medical malpractice. The same can tragically be true if you have a loved one who never woke at all.
While some errors or risks are always inherent, and hospitals will make you sign a consent form, you are never consenting to negligent care. After a botched surgery or severe complications such as damage to other organs or infections, you have the right to demand the hospital cover your costs or your loss in the case of a death.
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Incorrect Care Or Infection Errors
While not nearly as dramatic, medical malpractice incidents due to incorrect or insufficient care are perhaps even more frequent. From failing to properly clean and care for a patient after surgery to neglecting an elder in a nursing home, such cases come in many different forms. But the consequences are often the same: life-threatening infections or conditions that go unnoticed and untreated only to become more severe or even deadly.
These claims are often brought against hospital or nursing home staff, such as nurses or even physical therapists, rather than surgeons. But they owe you the same level of care. If they fail in their duty to care for you or a loved one and that leads to health complications, injuries, or death, you have a right to demand justice and compensation with the help of a medical malpractice lawyer.
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Diagnosis Errors
Another type of problem entirely can occur when a doctor, from a specialist to your general practitioner family doctor, is careless or negligent when diagnosing your condition. If you come to a doctor with what you believe to be severe pain, but they send you away with basic painkillers and no investigation into what could be wrong, they are failing to do their duty of differential diagnosis.
Differential diagnosis means choosing between different possible causes for your symptoms and ruling them out until the correct explanation is found. If they fail to even consider more severe possibilities, and it turns out that they ignored something important that then causes you greater harm or has deadly consequences, they can be held responsible for failing to do their duty.
Our personal injury and medical malpractice lawyers have handled such medical malpractice claims and more for Fairfield County residents. So, if you have endured harm after any of the above, or any other interaction or intervention from medical professionals, including the loss of a loved one, we urge you to reach out as soon as possible.
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Call A Fairfield County Medical Malpractice Attorney Near You!
Law Office of Jack O'Donnell, L.L.C. | Experienced Connecticut medical malpractice claim lawyers ready to help you explore your settlement or litigation options for compensation.
If you or a loved one have suffered unexpected and adverse consequences after surgery, medical care, or a misdiagnosis, you should contact a medical malpractice attorney as soon as possible. Every day that goes by is one more for the hospital or insurance company to bury evidence and one less for us to build the case for your compensation.
Even if you are not sure that you have a valid claim, we can help you figure that out for free. You can schedule a free initial consultation with our medical malpractice claim attorney by calling (203) 787-8603 or by reaching out online. We are sorry this happened to you and look forward to helping you obtain justice.