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| MEDICAL MALPRACTICE |
 Medical Malpractice is the failure of medical professionals to provide adequate treatment to patients resulting in a personal injury or substantial loss of income. Medical Malpractice is a doctor’s failure to exercise the degree of care and skill that a physician or surgeon of the same medical specialty would use under similar circumstances.
Medical malpractice statistics from a Harvard study showed 1% of patients treated in New York state hospitals were injured, with 25% of those resulting in death because of medical negligence. If those statistics were translated into nationwide, 234,000 injuries and 80,000 deaths would have been reported from negligence in American hospitals.
Expanding these estimates to include general medical practice statistics outside of a hospital, the potential abuse by physicians is even greater. An in-depth interview with 53 family physicians revealed that 47% of the doctors recalled a case in which the patient died due to physician error. Only four of the total reported errors led to malpractice suits, and none of these errors resulted in an action by a peer review organization.
Medical malpractice statistics show that there are between approximately 44,000 and 98,000 people that die in hospitals each year due to preventable medical errors. A survey of doctors and other adults released in the New England Journal of Medicine found that more than a third of the doctors said they or their family members had experienced medical errors, most leading to serious health consequences. The cost to society in terms of disability and health care costs, lost income, lost household production and the personal costs of care are estimated to be between $17 billion and $29 billion. In contrast, the medical liability system costs $6.7 billion annually, about what is spent on dog food each year.
In general, there are no guarantees of medical results. An unanticipated or unsuccessful result from medical treatment or surgery does not, in itself, mean that medical malpractice has been committed. Nonetheless, if you believe you may have been the victim of medical malpractice, you should meet with an experienced attorney as soon as possible to discuss the facts of your case and receive a professional evaluation of your situation, because of the time limits involved for filing a medical malpractice lawsuit.
Only one malpractice claim is made for every eight medical malpractice injuries and plaintiffs drop 10 times more claims than they pursue. These medical malpractice statistics reflect the lack of proper representation by an attorney in a medical malpractice case. If you or a loved one has suffered from medical malpractice contact the Law Offices of Blauman, McCabe, Koors & Jednak today. Don't be another medical malpractice statistic.
Areas of medical malpractice include but are not limited to: birth injury (such as Erbs Palsy, Brachial Plexus Palsy, and Cerebral Palsy), brain injury, cardiac medicine, obstetrics, failure to diagnose cancer claims, wrongful death, misdiagnosis, medication error, surgical mistakes, anesthesia errors, nursing home abuse, and nursing home neglect.
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