When we go to a hospital or medical center, we are very reliant upon the expertise of the staff to provide us with safe care. While physicians may orchestrate the medical care, it is incumbent upon the support staff to carry though the physicians’ orders and provide patients with assistance throughout the course of their admission.
Every patient deserves to receive medical care in a clean and well-run hospital. However, at some hospitals, there simply is a broken system where errors result in harm to the patient. Examples of systematic hospital errors include:
- Administering the wrong medication
- Performing the wrong medical procedure on a patient
- Allowing bed sores or pressure sores to develop during an admission
- Failing to follow physician orders
- Failing to protect patients from physical harm from intruders or staff
- Giving patients the wrong food
In addition to errors due to inadequate hospital policy, the negligence of individual staff members such as nurses and orderlies may cause or contribute to a patient injury. Examples of individual staff negligence includes:
- Dropping patients
- Failing to provide assistance during transfers into and out of bed
- Improperly drawing blood
- Pushing patients in wheelchairs into walls and elevator doors
Even if the circumstances regarding a patient’s injury during a hospitalization are unclear, Rosenfeld Injury Lawyers will investigate the matter and provide you with answers surrounding the incident. Once there is some clarity regarding the facts, we can then work with the hospital’s risk manager on a settlement or proceed to a lawsuit against the medical institution and its employees.
Related materials from Rosenfeld Injury Lawyers:
A recently filed birth injury lawsuit alleges that an Illinois hospital and attending doctor are to blame for the brain injury to a child during the delivery process. In the lawsuit, the child’s parents allege that their daughter was born with hypoxic brain injury due to the negligence of physician and hospital staff during the delivery process.
Specifically, the medical malpractice lawsuit accuses the hospital and doctor of rupturing membranes in the child’s head during the delivery process and further inadequate care by failing to timely perform a C-section when the vital signs indicated that the infant was in distress…
A truly horrific pattern of emergency room care is being alleged in a medical malpractice lawsuit filed against a California hospital and various doctors who assisted in the care of a young girl.
The lawsuit alleges that staff at the Methodist Hospital in Sacramento, CA were negligent in responding to the medical needs of the young girl who’s parents took her to the emergency room with complaints related to progressive: fever, skin discoloration and overall weakness.
After waiting in the emergency room for more than five hours, the girls condition progressed to the point where she began to lose consciousness. Turns out, the girl had streptococcus A, a bacterial infection that quickly took over the girls entire body….
For the third time in recent years, the Illinois Supreme Court has rejected the State legislatures attempt to limit the rights of those who have been harmed by negligent doctors and hospitals.
This most recent decision held section 2-1706.5 of the Code of Civil Procedure was unconstitutional because it violated the separation of powers between the judiciary and legislative branches of government. Under section 2-1706.5, an injured person was limited in their recovery of non-economic damages of $500,000 against doctors and $1,000,000 against hospitals….