Where Did the Doctor Go Wrong?
Doctors are only human, and it is inevitable that they will make some honest mistakes. However, certain kinds of mistakes fall outside the bounds of acceptable medical practice. They violate a standard of "reasonable care," and they put everyone — our neighbors, our friends and our families — at risk.
Attorney Steven M. Watson in Omaha, Nebraska, has experience holding doctors accountable for medical negligence and helping injured patients recover the compensation they need and deserve. To schedule a free consultation, call 402-492-9800 or contact us online.
Different Types of Medical Negligence:
- Diagnostic Judgment Errors: Failing to run the proper diagnostic tests or failing to properly interpret test results to determine the patient's illness.
- Therapeutic Judgment Errors: Failing to recommend the correct intervention or treatment once a diagnosis has been made.
- Performance Errors: Failing to perform diagnostic or therapeutic procedure properly. This includes surgical errors and failure to take precautions to prevent complications.
- Communication Breakdowns Between Doctors and Patients: Failing to make sure that the patient knows critical information, like potential side effects of medication, or positive tests results for disease.
- Communication Breakdowns Between Health Care Providers: When two doctors treat the same patient, they need to communicate with each other clearly. Failures in communication can have devastating results.
- Supervision Errors: Failing to ensure that the staff receives the right orders and is qualified to carry them out.
- Consultation Referral Errors: Failing to consult with a specialist when a patient's condition is beyond the primary care physician's expertise.
- Medication Errors: Failing to deliver the correct medication, the correct dosage or to correctly fulfill a prescription.
- Drug Administration Errors: Failing to deliver the right drug, at the right dose, to the right patient, via the right route of administration, at the right time and the right frequency.
- Drug Interaction Errors: Failing to recognize how newly prescribed drugs will interact with drugs the patient is already taking.
In addition to handling medical negligence, our office also handles other forms of professional negligence and malpractice.
We don’t take cases unless we are sure someone was careless and someone was seriously injured.
Our law office is committed to helping the victims of medical negligence and medical malpractice recover compensation for injuries. We help hold negligent doctors accountable for the damage they cause. To schedule a free consultation with lawyer Steven M. Watson, call us today at 402-492-9800 or contact our firm online.
