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By seeking care, the patient enters into an agreement with the medical establishment. This agreement assumes that the doctor, the staff, and the hospital that house the doctor will treat the patient to the best of their ability and will use their knowledge to provide safe and competent care. This agreement to care for the patient means that you, as a patient, have the right to carefully managed treatment. Medical caregivers must be diligent in their efforts to treat and cure you, as any mistakes or carelessness on their part can lead to serious complications or death.
The doctor and medical staff treating you are not the only people responsible for your care. The hospital has the responsibility of ensuring that the physicians, nurses, and any other employees perform their jobs without causing harm. It is the hospital’s duty to hold its staff accountable for their actions and to remove any staff member found to be performing his duties below an acceptable level.
Sometimes, errors do happen. Doctors are there to help heal the wounded and cure the ill. The number one rule of medicine is first “do no harm”. However, the individual treating you may make a mistake or become careless. This lack of competent care can have devastating effects on the patient. When a mistake occurs, it is the patient and their family who pay the price. The price of being a victim of medical malpractice is not only the dollar amount needed for additional care, missed work, or necessary medical equipment. The mental health of a wronged patient may suffer as well. Family members who assume the care for the maltreated patient must rearrange their lives and shoulder an unnecessary burden.
The Louisville, Kentucky medical malpractice attorneys of Gray and White Law have obtained sizeable verdicts and settlements on behalf of victims of medical malpractice: Cases in point: $27.6 million dollar verdict for family of infant injured during delivery (largest medical malpractice verdict in Kentucky, to date); $10.6 million dollar verdict for family of infant injured during multiple failed attempts to deliver; $5.7 million dollar verdict for family of infant which suffered brain damage as a result of improper anesthesia (largest medical malpractice verdict in Kentucky at the time); $10 million dollar settlement for patient injured in hospital.
In the most extreme cases of medical malpractice, loss of human life occurs, which forever impacts the lives of the surviving family members and friends who are left behind. Yet, often, grief impacts the reasoning abilities of these very people and the truth is never fully realized.
In the medical field, wrongful death is any death caused by negligence on the part of the medical establishment. It is imperative that the survivors of this tragedy investigate the possibility that a mistake was made. By enlisting the help of the Kentucky wrongful death attorneys at Gray and White Law, ordinary people can understand how negligence has affected their lives and how to secure justice for their own suffering and, at the same time, stand up for the lost loved one.
There are many types of medical malpractice cases and they can occur in every sector of the medical community. Below are examples in which errors on the part of the medical community can have catastrophic effects on the patient.
Medication / Anesthesia Errors
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