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The following is a small sample of medical malpractice cases we have handled. With over 25 years of experience, we’ve handled most malpractice cases imaginable – and sadly have handled many cases where different doctors made exactly the same mistake leading to the deaths or serious injuries to different patients. If you have been the victim of medical malpractice, we have almost certainly seen a case like yours before.

Dentist Negligence

• Negligence in monitoring a patient during a tooth extraction leads to the patient’s death
• Negligence while drilling causes a patient’s tongue to be cut in half
• Negligence in orthodontic treatment causes  jaw damage and loss of several teeth (multiple cases.
• Negligence causes a patient to need over $150,000 of dental work and surgeries to correct the doctor’s mistakes  (multiple cases)
• Negligence in cosmetic dentistry (caps and teeth straightening) results in loss of teeth, jaw damage and multiple surgeries

Emergency Room Medical Malpractice

• Failure to diagnose or treat heart attack causes patient’s death (multiple cases)
• Failure to diagnose appendicitis leads to patient’s burst appendix and death (multiple cases)
• Failure to treat meningitis causes severe brain damage to a child (multiple cases)
• Heart failure misdiagnosed as indigestion leads to patient’s death
• Administration of wrong drug leads to child’s death
• Discharge of patient with internal injuries leads to patient’s death (multiple cases)
• Failure to evaluate patient correctly causes patient’s death from a missed heart infection
• Failure to diagnose compartment syndrome causes patient to lose his leg (multiple cases)

Eye Doctor (Ophthalmologist) Medical Malpractice

• Negligence in treating glaucoma results in patient losing his vision
• Failure to diagnose eye infection causes patient to lose his vision

Family Practice Doctor Negligence

• Failure to diagnose pneumonia leads to patient’s disability after several surgeries
• Heart failure misdiagnosed as heart failure causes patient’s death

Internal Medicine Specialist Medical Malpractice

• Failure to treat or diagnose an infection in a hospital leads to death of patient
• Failure to diagnose heart problem leads to heart attack and death of the patient 
• Failure to act on laboratory results leads to death of patient from a treatable cancer

Hospital and Nursing Malpractice

• Nurse’s failure to give blood test results to doctor leads to patient’s death by heart infection
• Nurse’s administration of wrong drug leads to death of a child
• Failure of nursing staff to monitor patient leads to infection, horrible bedsores, and patient’s death
• Failure of nursing staff to follow fall precautions for disabled patient leads to patient’s death
• Failure of physical therapy staff to react to bleeding within patient’s cast causes patient to need multiple surgeries, lose all skin on leg, and disability
• Failure of dialysis and floor nurses to act on an emergency during dialysis causes patient to bleed to death
• Surgical nurses leave surgical instruments and sponges in patients  (multiple cases)
• Doctor and hospital staff’s failure to follow post-operative procedure causes death of patient due to post-operative complications (multiple cases)

Obstetrician and Gynecologist Medical Malpractice

• Failure to perform C-section causes in death of infant (multiple cases)
• Failure to perform C-section causes in death of mother
• Negligence during delivery causes permanent loss of use of baby’s arm (multiple cases)
• Failure to respond to evidence of trapped uterus leads to brain damage of baby
• Failure to deliver baby in time results in cerebral palsy
• Failure to react to evidence of cervical cancer causes patient’s death (multiple cases)
• Negligence in performing hysterectomy causes injuries to ureter, bladder, or other structures, leading to severe injuries and the need for more surgeries (multiple cases)
• Needle left in patient after surgery causes severe pain and the need for more surgery
• Failure to treat infection causes patient to be unable to carry children
• Negligence in failing to diagnose post operative infection results in death or injury to patient (multiple cases)

Orthopedist Medical Malpractice

• Negligence during ankle surgery causes infection and loss of function in ankle
• Negligence during back surgery causes patient severe pain and permanent disability  
• Failure to diagnose compartment syndrome causes patient to lose his leg (multiple cases)
• Negligence in setting ankle fracture leads to patient’s severe pain and permanent disability
• Unnecessary and badly performed back surgery cripples patient (multiple cases)
• Negligence in performing back surgery cripples patient and causes loss of use of leg
• Failure to diagnose blocked arteries leads patient’s loss of leg (multiple cases)
• Negligence in operation on patient’s foot leads to nerve damage and permanent disability
• Surgeon’s negligence leads to  loss of limb and infection (multiple cases)

Nursing Home Negligence

• Negligence in caring for resident leads to bedsores and several surgeries (multiple cases)
• Negligence in monitoring resident’s nutrition leads to his death
• Negligence in monitoring resident leads to his fall, disability, and death (multiple cases)
• Failure to read resident’s records correctly leads to malnutrition, bedsores and death

Pediatrician Medical Malpractice

• Failure to diagnose meningitis causes child’s death, injury, or severe brain damage (multiple cases)

Podiatrist Negligence

• Unnecessary surgery causes in permanent disability
• Negligence during foot surgery leads to severe pain, several surgeries and permanent disability (multiple cases)

Surgical Medical Malpractice

• Negligence during lung surgery results in patient’s permanent disability
• Doctor and hospital staff’s failure to follow post-operative procedure after nose surgery causes death of patient due to post-operative complications (multiple cases)
• Negligence during gall bladder removal (laparoscopic cholecystectomy) causes liver damage to patient (multiple cases)
• Negligence during ankle surgery causes infection, necessitates more surgery, and patient’s inability to bend ankle.
• Negligence during foot surgery cause patient to be permanently unable to walk. (multiple cases)
• Negligence during abdominal surgery results in surgeon cutting the colon, infection, and death of patient (multiple cases)
• Negligence during colon surgery causes sterility of male patient
• Negligence after colon surgery causes doctor to miss infection which resulted in patient’s death  (multiple cases)
• Negligence during gall bladder surgery results in surgeon cutting wrong duct, patient’s disability, and more surgeries (multiple cases)
• Negligence during hysterectomy causes damage to bladder and ureter (multiple cases)

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