If you are reading this – you may have sustained injuries from hospital errors. We know hospital errors can have devastating effects on your life. You might be in a lot of pain right now. Your injuries may have caused you to take time away from work. You might be worried about covering your medical bills.
If your life was adversely affected by hospital errors – you deserve financial compensation for your injuries and suffering.
Let Alpert Schreyer Personal Injury Lawyers experienced medical malpractice lawyers help you navigate your hospital error claim.
Our Maryland hospital error lawyers can guide you through this stressful period in your life. We will fight aggressively to get you the financial compensation you deserve and need to get your life back on track.
We offer free legal advice and free legal consultations.
Please don’t worry about the cost of our legal services. Our legal fees are the last thing we want you to worry about while you recover. We take care of all upfront costs. You don’t pay us anything until we win your case. With our help – all you have to do is focus on your healing.
The sooner you contact us – the stronger your case will be. The insurance company is already building a case against you. They are waiting for you to make a mistake. The more you speak to the insurance company – the more likely you will be to say something that can jeopardize the value of your claim. Please remember – the insurance company is not your friend. They will use everything you say to lower your compensation or deny your claim. What they can’t do – is hold you accountable for what your lawyer says on your behalf. Let us handle them for you.
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When we are patients at a hospital, we sometimes literally place our lives in the hands of medical professionals. We trust that they have received adequate training and have the skills and knowledge to treat whatever ails us. While there are certainly highly skilled doctors, surgeons, nurses, and other medical professionals in the medical field, unfortunately, there are also incidents of medical professional mistakes and errors that can cost a patient his or her life.
A recent study by the Office of Inspector General of the Department of Health and Human Services analyzed the medical records and cases of a random sampling of 780 Medicare patients that were discharged in October of 2008. Researchers discovered that almost 134,000 people per month suffer an “adverse event” while hospitalized, which adds up to about 1.6 million people every year. Even worse, approximately 15,000 of those people die every month, which results in over 180,000 deaths per year that are a result of an error, or the error was a factor in their death. The study noted that almost half of the errors were “clearly or likely preventable.” The adverse events in the study included drug-dosing errors, serious bed sores, surgical and catheter infections, too much IV fluid, falls, poor wound care, equipment malfunctions, and surgical mistakes, such as operating on the wrong part of a patient’s body or on the wrong patient entirely.
According to a report published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), medical mistakes are the third largest cause of death in the United States, closely following cancer and heart disease. There are approximately 225,000 fatalities each year attributed to negligent medical treatment, advice, or care. According to the JAMA report, there are approximately 7,000 fatalities every year as a result of medication errors in hospitals; about 12,000 fatalities every year due to unnecessary surgery; around 20,000 fatalities every year as a result of other, various hospital errors; approximately 80,000 fatalities every year due to hospital-acquired infections; and about 106,000 fatalities every year as a result of adverse reactions to prescribed medications.
What Are Some of the Most Common Hospital Errors?
- Failure to order tests
- Failure to properly evaluate test results
- Failure to adequately monitor a patient
- Failure to correctly diagnose a condition
- Failure to diagnose a condition at all
- Failure to prescribe the correct drug
- Failure to prescribe drugs in the proper dosage
- Failure to properly treat a patient
- Failure to treat a patient at all
- Birth injuries to either the mother or the baby
- Surgical errors, like operating on the wrong part of a patient’s body or leaving surgical instruments within the patient’s body after the operation
Health regulators in Maryland estimate that insurance companies paid about $522 million in 2008 to cover complications in hospitals that were judged to be preventable, which occurred in approximately 55,000 of the state’s 800,000 inpatient cases. This means that victims of medical negligence are left with millions of dollars’ worth of pain, suffering, and other damages every year due to preventable, life-changing injuries.
Contact Alpert Schreyer Personal Injury Lawyers for a Free Consultation!
If you have been suffering as the result of a hospital error in Maryland, you have legal rights. If you are unsure of where to begin, consulting with a Maryland medical malpractice attorney can help you determine the right course of action.