Hartford County Medical Malpractice Lawyer Helps Patients Hold Doctors Accountable
Have you suffered or been injured because of a medical professional’s carelessness or negligence in Hartford County? From surgeons to doctors and nurses, attorney Jack O’Donnell will help you bring a medical malpractice claim against them.
Doctors and nurses are some of the most trusted and important jobs out there. However, from the generalist who hands out prescriptions to the surgeon who cuts into you, when that trust is broken, they can do a lot of damage.
Every year in Hartford County and throughout the state of Connecticut, things do go wrong in hospitals, nursing homes, care centers and doctor’s offices. Lives are forever changed, and people are left injured or families mourning because of mistakes made by doctors, nurses and other medical professionals.
If such an incident has occurred to you or someone you love, you should reach out as soon as possible to a medical malpractice lawyer like Jack O’Donnell. You may very well be owed both justice and financial compensation for what you have been through, but that does not mean the hospitals or insurance companies responsible will be easy to get either out of.
The Great Irony Of Medical Malpractice Claim Difficulties In Hartford County
When you make a medical malpractice claim for the harm done by a negligent medical professional or care provider, you are inevitably going to go up against their insurance. By law, all doctors and hospitals in Hartford County have to have this insurance, but that does not mean the insurance company is going to accept your claim without a fight.
This is particularly ironic as Hartford, and to a lesser extent, the whole county remains a historic center of the entire insurance sector. Here, you’ll find headquarters or major offices of insurers from every industry, including the medical malpractice field. Indeed, over the decades, the insurance sector has contributed significantly to wealth and development in Hartford County. Unfortunately, that wealth is often built on depriving people like you of some or all of the funds you need and deserve.
The irony goes even deeper as Hartford has some of the best hospitals and is known for the fields of medical care and research. And yet, even the best sometimes make mistakes, and when they do, that can leave you injured, crippled, or mourning the loss of a loved one. Between the titans of healthcare and insurance in Hartford County, it is those who fall between the cracks that attorney Jack O’Donnell fights for.
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Who Can A Connecticut Medical Malpractice Lawyer Help You Hold Responsible?
In a perfect world, no medical professional would leave you worse off than you were before visiting them. Accidents happen, though, and medicine is complicated enough that some mistakes are not just expected but inevitable. Unfortunately, those are not the kinds of errors that medical malpractice claims usually deal with.
Such claims are designed to be broguht against those that have acted negligently and grossly failed to live up to the standards of care, the duty of care, expected from the medical field. This sort of negligence or carelessness can take many forms and can be done by anyone at nearly every stage of the care process, from the lowest orderly to the highest-paid surgeon.
Surgeons And Specialists
These are often highly paid doctors who you will only see briefly for specific interventions or questions. They are unlikely to know you well or spend a long time preparing your case. Surgeons can easily become exhausted from long, grueling hours, and that kind of fatigue can lead to deadly mistakes.
When things go wrong in surgery, it is often immediately obvious when you wake up, if you wake up. But obvious injuries or crippling pains are not automatic; sometimes, surgical mistakes can take months or even years to manifest. This fact may make it difficult to get insurers to admit any fault and pay out any compensation for it.
Doctors And Diagnosis
The operating room is far from the only place a mistake can occur, however. Negligence can happen without a doctor ever putting implements to flesh. For example:
- If you have a sample sent in for a biopsy and it is mixed up with another,
- If your generalist diagnoses you incorrectly, leading to years of ineffective or harmful treatment,
- If a doctor ignores what you are telling them about your state, symptoms or pain, leaving your condition untreated,
It can lead to serious consequences on your health, even death.
Such mistakes are often caused by negligence or carelessness, and those doctors or technicians responsible have just as strong an oath to care for you as the highest-paid surgeon. When they err, it is just as important that they be held accountable by a medical malpractice lawyer, both to stop it from happening again and to ensure that your costs are paid by the institution or individual responsible.
Nurses And Staff
Doctors are not the only ones who owe you a strong duty of care. Everyone in the hospital or nursing home you might be in has an obligation to certain minimal standards of care. When an overworked nurse skips your room and fails to notice a problem, that can be medical malpractice. When a staff member is lazy while cleaning surfaces or equipment, it leads to a serious or life-threatening infection, which can also be medical malpractice.
While such individuals rarely have as much power in their hands as a surgeon holding an artery closed with their hands, nurses and other healthcare professionals can sometimes do even more damage, often in ways that are even harder to prove.
Regardless of the harm done and who caused it, however, if you want any hope of holding the individual, institution, and inusrance company responsible for the harm they have caused, you are going to need a medical malpractice lawyer. And since time is already ticking on your ability to file, you should be sure to contact Jack O’Donnell as quickly as possible.
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It can be scary even admitting that a doctor or other medical professional has caused you harm, and twice as scary to try and hold them accountable. Especially in the face of mighty insurance industry titans like those in Hartford County.
But you do not have to do so alone. If you have suffered or lost a loved one because of medical negligence, malpractice lawyer Jack O’Donnell can help you hold them accountable.
To get such a medical malpractice attorney to review your side and situation, call (203) 787-8603 or reach us online.