Medical malpractice can literally turn your life around and send it into a tailspin that can take years to get out of – if that’s something you can even do. If your doctor has been guilty of medical malpractice and you are now facing serious health consequences yourself as a result (or if you’ve had a child born with birth injuries or undiagnosed health conditions as a result of your doctor’s carelessness, negligence, or incompetence), you need the services of a Nassau personal injury lawyer to help you get the compensation you deserve. No compensation is going to completely mitigate the damage done even if it can be corrected (and sometimes, it can’t), but compensation will at least help you pay for expenses that come as a result of the medical malpractice, like unexpected medical bills, loss of a job, long-term disability, and so on.

How does a medical malpractice happen, exactly?

  • Failure to diagnose

Medical malpractice occurs because your doctor or another health care worker fails to diagnose illness, either because the disease itself was overlooked or because your doctor thought it was something you couldn’t have. Young women, for example, are often perceived as not to be at risk for breast cancer, because breast cancer is truly rare in younger women. However, some breast cancers are actually more aggressive in younger women, meaning that timely diagnosis and treatment is imperative to so as to minimize disfigurement and make treatment more effective (and less expensive), AND to save lives. If you’ve had a situation whereby a failure to diagnose has caused lasting health problems or even imminent death, hiring a New York personal injury attorney will help see to it that you see at least some justice for your pain and suffering.·

  • Failure to act upon a risk

With failure to act upon a risk, this type of medical malpractice occurs when the risk for or an obvious diagnosis of a particular disease should have been easily detected by any reasonably competent physician, and wasn’t. When these types of mistakes in diagnosis and treatment cause avoidable injury, worsening of the medical condition in question, avoidable suffering or wrongful death, contact a personal injury lawyer in New York to review your case.

  • Meeting the “medical malpractice” standard

Commonly, any type of medical malpractice implies that the standard of care for the particular condition in question was not met. This negligence, incompetence, carelessness or thoughtlessness has caused unnecessary suffering, permanent injury, or even death. If this has happened to you, contact a NYC personal injury attorney to represent you in your case.

What happens when you meet with your personal injury lawyer in New York?

Your lawyer will first meet with you to review your case, to determine whether or not it has merit such that it can be pursued in court for damages. If it is found that this is the case, your lawyer will take your case on a contingency basis, and won’t collect anything in fees unless you win your case.

For questions about this or any other aspect of the law, feel free to contact me directly at 516.358.6900 or RJaffe@lcjLawFirm.com