Medical malpractice includes negligent physician actions that result in a patient’s injury or death. Medical malpractice also includes physicians’ actions that do not rise the profession’s standard level of care, delaying a patient’s recovery or worsening her condition. If you or a loved one has suffered a serious or permanent injury at the hands of a negligent health care provider engaged in medical malpractice, contact medical malpractice attorney H Lee Thompson for a free consultation. Attorney H Lee Thompson has extensive experience litigating cases involving surgical errors and other medical malpractice. Medical malpractice attorney H Lee Thompson will fight to protect your rights.

PATIENT’S RIGHTS

Please read the following information regarding your rights as a patient to avoid medical malpractice:

• You have a right to thorough, competent medical care, and the right to prompt recognition and treatment of any complications that may occur.
• You have a right to receive “informed consent” to medical procedures.
• You have the right to have a consulting doctor called in where there are any questions in the mind of the attending doctor (or patient) of the diagnosis or course of treatment.
• You have the right of free access to their medical records, except in the unusual cases of psychiatric disorders.
• You have the right to solicit honest, unbiased doctors in medical malpractice cases.
• You have a right to be represented by competent medical malpractice counsel and to have a medical negligence lawsuit tried in a speedy fashion.

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INFORMED CONSENT – THE PATIENT’S RIGHT TO KNOW

A physician may be subject to a medical malpractice lawsuit if he does not obtain informed consent before performing a medical procedure. If you have not been given information necessary to give informed consent before your doctor performs a medical or surgical procedures, you may have legal rights. Jury award studies indicate patients who did not get informed consent are routinely victims of substandard medical care and medical malpractice. You have the right to be informed about the risks, complications, expected results, and alternatives to a medical therapy or procedure performed on you. Make certain you know all the facts before you sign an informed consent agreement for surgery, and contact medical malpractice attorney H Lee Thompson if you did not give consent. You have rights!

MEDIAL NEGLIGENCE – ERRORS AND CARELESSNESS IN HEALTH CARE

The following can be medical malpractice examples:

• Complications from surgery, hospital, or other medical care which were not explained in detail before treatment.
• Infections stemming from surgery.
• Drug treatment that caused either short or long term difficulties.
• Needless surgery, whether or not there are complications or surgical errors.
• Paying for services of an established private physician and having the surgery performed by an inexperienced resident or intern.
• Infection caused by contaminated (unsterile) intravenous therapy equipment or urinary catheters.
• Stomach surgery leading to diarrhea, sweating, weight loss, and/or vomiting.
• Gallbladder surgery resulting in yellow jaundice.

SURGICAL ERRORS

Doctors, nurses, or other hospital staff can all be guilty of surgical errors. These surgical errors can result in serious injuries and death. Victims of surgical errors have a right to file a lawsuit against the responsible party and hold them accountable for damages. Damages in surgical errors cases include compensation for medical expenses, lost wages and mental anguish associated with the injury. Here are a few examples of surgical errors:

• Surgery on the wrong part of the body
• Wrong surgical procedure
• Injury from surgery
• Surgical instruments left in the body

For more information about medical negligence, contact surgical error attorney H Lee Thompson at The Thompson Law Firm. Attorney H Lee Thompson is happy to answer your questions and review your medical malpractice case. Call him TOLL FREE 1-800-461-9013, or fill out the form bellow.