Gurnee Medical Malpractice Attorneys

Lake County Personal Injury Law Firm For Medical Malpractice

As patients, we should be able to trust that the doctors, nurses, dentists, and other licensed medical professionals who treat us are doing the best work they can and are looking out for our safety. When a medical provider fails to meet the standards of their profession, and a patient suffers a personal injury as a result, the patient may be entitled to recover compensation. Medical malpractice can leave a patient with permanent injuries or a lower chance of survival when a major diagnosis is delayed or missed. If you believe that your healthcare provider has made an error that caused you harm, it is important to take action immediately by contacting an attorney and allowing them to investigate your case.

Brady Cole Trial Lawyers is experienced in helping patients who have been injured by negligent medical care providers. If you are not sure whether your doctor has made a mistake in caring for you, our law firm can help you find out and file a lawsuit promptly. The statute of limitations for medical malpractice is short, so do not wait to contact us. You may have as little as two years from the date the injury occurred to file a lawsuit before you are barred from recovering compensation.

Types of Medical Malpractice

Medical malpractice can take many forms, some of which are harder to detect than others. Different negligent actions - or inactions - by doctors, nurses, dentists, and other licensed providers that might constitute medical malpractice include:

• Failure to test and diagnose - If you reported symptoms to your provider, and they told you it was "probably nothing" or that the cause of your symptoms was something harmless, but they were wrong, you may have experienced this type of malpractice. Doctors have a professional obligation to reasonably investigate symptoms reported by patients. Failing to do so can mean that a serious diagnosis, like a brain injury after a car accident, goes undetected.
• Prescription drug errors - When a doctor prescribes a medication that is not suitable or not necessary for a patient, that patient can suffer long-term or irreversible harm.
• Surgical and anesthesia errors - Surgeons can make mistakes during surgery that cause the procedure to fail or create complications that could have been avoided. Anesthesiologists who do not carefully monitor patients can cause serious brain injuries or wrongful death.
• Pregnancy and childbirth issues - OBGYNs and others who care for pregnant and birthing people may fail to notice a medical condition they should have caught, or they may fail to take the proper actions when an emergency occurs during childbirth. This can lead to serious injuries or disabilities for a child or mother.
• Missed diagnoses and wrongful death - Tragically, some critical diagnoses are missed entirely and detected only during an autopsy. This commonly happens in emergency room settings when staff fails to take a patient's concerns seriously until they are actively dying and it is too late to act. Failure to properly diagnose cancer is another issue that can lead to patients suffering irreversible harm because they were not provided with the proper treatment before the disease spread throughout the body.
• Hospital-acquired infections - While some disease transmission in the hospital setting cannot be prevented, a good deal of these issues can and should be addressed by following the proper sanitary procedures. Patients may wrongfully be placed in a room shared with a person who has a transmissible disease, or infections may be spread through other means, causing a person to become sicker than they were when they went into the hospital.
• Failure to monitor - Doctors who have undertaken a patient's care or performed a procedure have a duty to monitor their patient for certain reasonably predictable complications. For example, if a patient is administered a medication in the hospital, and doctors or nurses did not respond after the person experienced a serious reaction, it can likely be said that the hospital neglected its duty to monitor the patient.

If you believe that your medical condition worsened because your healthcare provider failed to act, or if your provider made a mistake that directly injured you, it is important to contact a lawyer immediately to determine your legal options. Acting quickly to preserve your claim can en.

Contact a Gurnee, IL, Medical Malpractice Lawyer

Brady Cole Trial Lawyers is committed to helping patients who have been harmed by a medical provider's negligence recover compensation. Our knowledgeable Lake County, IL, medical malpractice attorneys will carefully investigate and act quickly on your behalf. Contact us at 847-752-9639 for a complimentary consultation.