Greensboro Medical Malpractice Lawyers

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When you visit a doctor, surgeon, or other healthcare provider, you trust that they will provide you with the right diagnosis, treatment, and care. Unfortunately, this does not always happen. All too often, doctors, nurses, and other medical professionals make mistakes. These mistakes can cause serious harm to patients.

If you or your loved one were the victim of medical malpractice, you could be entitled to compensation. At Comerford Chilson & Moser, L.L.P., our Greensboro medical malpractice attorneys have been representing injured individuals and the families of those wrongfully killed since 1999.

Call us at (336) 568-8779 or contact us online today to schedule a free consultation with our team.

What is Medical Malpractice?

Medical malpractice refers to a healthcare provider’s failure to provide care that meets the accepted standard. In other words, if a doctor, nurse, surgeon, or any other medical professional fails to provide care that another reasonably competent healthcare provider would have provided in the same or similar circumstances, and their failure to do so causes harm to the patient, medical malpractice may have occurred.

Remember, just because a healthcare provider made a mistake or a patient was unhappy with the outcome of a procedure, this does not necessarily mean medical malpractice occurred.

Types of Medical Malpractice

Medical malpractice can take many forms. In general, however, it involves a healthcare provider’s failure to provide the accepted standard of care. This can include a wide range of errors, mistakes, and acts of negligence.

Some of the most common types of medical malpractice include:

• Misdiagnosis or delayed diagnosis: When a doctor fails to properly diagnose a patient’s condition, they will not receive the right treatment. Misdiagnosis is a form of medical malpractice and can include a doctor diagnosing a patient with the wrong condition or failing to diagnose them at all. Similarly, if a doctor does not diagnose a patient’s condition in a timely manner, the patient may not receive the treatment they need, and their condition may worsen.
• Medication errors: This can include a doctor prescribing the wrong medication, failing to consider a patient’s allergies or other medications they are taking, a pharmacist filling the wrong prescription, or a nurse administering the wrong medication or dosage.
• Birth injuries: When a doctor, nurse, or other healthcare provider makes a mistake during prenatal care, labor, or delivery, the baby can suffer serious harm. This can include brain damage, nerve damage, broken bones, and more.
• Surgical errors: These can include a surgeon operating on the wrong body part or performing the wrong procedure, leaving a foreign object inside the patient’s body, causing an infection by failing to sterilize the surgical site, and more.
• Anesthesia errors: These can include a doctor administering too much or too little anesthesia, failing to consider a patient’s allergies or other medications they are taking, failing to properly monitor the patient while they are under anesthesia, and more.

How to Prove Medical Malpractice

Medical malpractice cases are notoriously challenging to prove. After all, doctors, surgeons, and other healthcare providers are not perfect, and they make mistakes like anyone else. However, when a healthcare provider’s mistake causes harm to a patient, they can and should be held accountable.

Several key elements must be proven in a medical malpractice case:

• Doctor-patient relationship: This is the first element that must be proven in a medical malpractice claim. In other words, you must be able to show that the doctor or other healthcare provider who treated you had a doctor-patient relationship with you. This means that you hired the doctor and the doctor agreed to be hired. You cannot sue a doctor you overheard advising a party, for example, because you did not have a doctor-patient relationship with them.
• Breach of the standard of care: The second element that must be proven is that the doctor or other healthcare provider breached the accepted standard of care. This means that they failed to provide the same level of care that another reasonably competent healthcare provider would have provided in the same or similar circumstances. To prove this, medical experts are often called in to testify. These experts will review the patient’s medical records and other relevant documents to determine whether the doctor’s actions (or failure to act) constituted a breach of the standard of care.
• Causation: The third element that must be proven is that the doctor’s breach of the standard of care directly caused the patient’s harm/injury. In other words, if the doctor had provided the accepted standard of care, the patient would not have been harmed. This can be difficult to prove, particularly if the patient was already sick or injured. Once again, medical experts are often called in to testify to prove this element.
• Harm/injury: The final element that must be proven is that the patient suffered harm/injury. This can include a patient’s condition worsening as a result of the doctor’s negligence, the patient developing a new illness or injury as a result of the doctor’s negligence, and more. In some cases, the patient may not have suffered any harm/injury.

Because medical malpractice cases are so complex, you must work with an experienced attorney who has a proven track record of success. At Comerford Chilson & Moser, L.L.P., we have been successfully representing victims of medical malpractice for nearly 25 years. We know the law, have extensive experience, and are prepared to fight for you.

Why Choose Comerford Chilson & Moser, L.L.P.?

At Comerford Chilson & Moser, L.L.P., we are passionate about helping injured individuals and the families of those wrongfully killed fight for the fair recoveries they need to make the best possible recovery from injury or illness. We believe that victims of malpractice should not have to suffer due to the negligence of their healthcare providers.

Our Greensboro medical malpractice lawyers have a proven track record of success in even the most complex cases. We are not afraid to take on large hospitals and insurance companies, and we are prepared to fight for you at trial, if necessary.

When you choose our firm, you can be confident that you will receive the quality, personalized legal representation you deserve. We are committed to providing each one of our clients with the compassionate, one-on-one legal counsel they need, as well as the aggressive advocacy they deserve.

Contact us today at (336) 568-8779 to learn how we can help.