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Your doctor screwed up and now you are really, really ill. You haven’t been able to work and the bills are stacking up. You may not be physically able to do your job anymore. You are getting worn out trying to get your doctor to make things right and don’t know how much longer you can keep it up. You need to turn your energy toward finding an experienced medical malpractice lawyer. She will negotiate on your behalf and track down all the moving parts of your case and make the other side pay for what happened.
As a patient we expect the best medical care available to us. It is actually a legal right we have. If at any point, in the care of a medical practitioner, the minimum standards are not upheld then they are negligent. We expect the best from our medical community and it needs to be delivered. When it isn’t, the effects can be life altering. Negligence could result in any number of things from disease transference to paralysis to surgery on the wrong part of the body.
Statistics have alarming figures for medical malpractice in the United States. Every year, more than 80,000 deaths and hundreds of thousands patients are living with serious or permanent injuries caused by a multitude medical errors.
What is medical or clinical negligence?