Medical Malpractice
Unfortunately, medical negligence is a fact of life in today's medicine. A Harvard Medical Practice Study, reported in the New England Journal of Medicine, found that incidents of medical malpractice were frequent in the hospitals studied and there is a high toll of avoidable medical injury nationwide which can be inferred from this frequency rate. According to the Consumers Union, there are 80,000 patients a year who die in this country as a result of medical negligence of physicians. This issue was recently studied by the Institute of Medicine, a division of the National Academy of Sciences, a private organization chartered by the United States Congress to advise the government on scientific matters. The report, issued late in 1999, found that between 44,000 and 98,000 hospitalized Americans die every year from medical errors.
The attorneys in our firm have investigated claims by individuals who have been injured from all types of medical negligence, including emergency room mistakes, birth trauma, misdiagnosis of cancer or other serious malpractice. We have made recoveries for clients sustaining serious injuries that were caused by medical errors occurring in hospitals, doctors' offices, radiology and pathology labs and other areas where physicians practice.
Birth Trauma
Due to the devastating long-term implications of a birthing problem, the most serious incidents of medical negligence arise out of childbirth. Brain damaged babies may require a lifetime of rehabilitative and supportive care.
Stephan Andersson has experience in handling medical malpractice claims arising out of particularly traumatic births, and he has achieved excellent results. In one such claim, he was able to fashion a special needs trust which will provide a source of funding for a lifetime of medical treatment, education, supportive care and assistance for the child, plus funds which enable the parents to hire nurses to watch their child.