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Medical Malpractice

It can be said that everyone makes mistakes from time to time when doing their job.  This does not necessarily mean that they are incompetent at the job or that they should lose their job, it just means that no one is perfect.  However, if you are a physician or you oversee a large hospital, you need to be sure that all possible safeguards that are usual in your profession are in place to protect the people that depend on your care.  Medical malpractice is the term for someone being further injured by negligence of someone in the medical profession.  Some hospitals have had several cases in the past several years of surgeons operating on the wrong part of the patient.  If this happens once, it is bad enough, if it happens even more than once then there are some safeguards that are definitely not working to protect the patient.  If you have had an injury or even a worsened condition due to medical malpractice you need to contact a Los Angeles Medical Malpractice Attorney.

Obviously if you or a family member suffered something as bizarre as an operation on the wrong body part, you would know immediately that something had gone wrong.  The doctor may actually be the person to tell you what happened.  Sometimes, it is not as clear cut as that and you don’t discover the injury or medical problem made worse for some time after your treatment.  The law allows you time to discover that something went wrong, but this is very technical and you need to speak with a Los Angeles Medical Malpractice Lawyer as soon as you believe that something has gone wrong.

One of the first things that you need to do in this type of situation is to gain copies of all of your medical records.  You have a right to these records and you should obtain them from the physician’s office, the hospital and any other treatment agency such as a rehabilitation center.  An experienced medical malpractice attorney such as Robert A. Brenner will then sit down with you and go over these records  together with your personal version of the incident to help you determine what compensation would be fair for you.  Then he will then fight hard to ensure that you receive it.  Call 800-669-7700 at any time for an appointment.

If you would like to learn about medical malpractice or if you have questions regarding your legal rights, please contact us.