Types of Medical Malpractice and Negligence

Medical Malpractice occurs when a doctor causes unintentional injury when performing a medical procedure. Most of the time, this is a result of medical negligence. Below are various types of medical negligence relating to malpractice:

  1. Misdiagnosis
  2. Delayed Diagnosis
  3. Surgical Error
  4. Unnecessary Surgery
  5. Errors in Anesthesia

At Gershon, Willoughby & Getz, LLC, our lawyers’ experience, and knowledge within the medical and legal professions are used to benefit a vast range of patients. In addition to our work as cerebral palsy attorneys, we have also successfully won settlements from for clients suffering a range of conditions resulting from medical malpractice. Such disorders include holoprosencephaly, quadriplegia and more. If you are looking for a skilled brain damage lawyer, Gershon, Willoughby & Getz, LLC is the leading medical malpractice law firm with highly experienced medical malpractice attorneys in the region.

Our medical malpractice law firm is based out of Baltimore, MD, and can handle cases in the following states and more:

  • Georgia
  • Maryland
  • Oregon
  • Ohio
  • Texas

Therefore, if you think you or your loved one’s condition may have resulted from medical negligence, and even if your case has been rejected by another attorney in your state, let our leading medical malpractice law firm take a look and advise you of your options.

No doctor or nurse intends to hurt their patient, but inattention or a lack of training can have tragic consequences. Unfortunately, doctors and nurses tend not to admit their mistakes; instead, they often say what happened was “just one of those things” and try to cover up their errors.

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This is when the knowledge and experience of our medical malpractice attorneys are most needed. Our malpractice law firm understands the medical field and how to read the medical records of injured patients to search out the malpractice the doctor and nurse did not tell you about.

Two examples of malpractice “cover-ups” our medical malpractice law firm discovered and obtained recoveries for include:

  • Brain damage caused by a massive overdose of asthma medication that was unreported in the medical records and only uncovered by one of our medical lawyers reading and understanding the significance of a single tiny entry in a medical chart hundreds of pages long
  • Quadriplegia caused due to the negligent use of the wrong anesthesia drug where the doctor did not reveal in the medical records that he had used the drug. Our lawyer-doctors realized that the patient’s vital signs and laboratory results could only be explained by the use of that particular anesthesia drug and saw through the attempted cover-up

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In addition, our medical malpractice lawyers have successfully represented patients and their families in wrongful death cases like death due to a delayed diagnosis of cancer; heart attack and death due to a failure to diagnose cardiovascular disease; quadriplegia caused by a negligently performed discogram followed by the failure to respond to post-procedure symptoms of infection; amputation of a leg from the failure to timely diagnose and properly treat post-operative infection; holoprosencephaly; brain damage caused by improper intubation of a patient, birth injury and others.

Put our team of experienced and successful medical malpractice attorneys to work for you and your settlement could appear next to these cases we have already won for our clients:

  • $24 million – the largest jury verdict ever for medical malpractice in the District of Columbia on behalf of a child who suffered brain damage and cerebral palsy due to the failure of her doctors and nurses to diagnose and timely respond to an obstruction of her airway.
  • $6 million – for a truck driver who was rendered quadriplegic due to improperly performed discogram and subsequent failure to respond to cervical spine infection.
  • $5.5 million – recovery for a Maryland man who was rendered quadriplegic and suffered brain damage because of the negligent administration of anesthesia.
  • $4.5 million – on behalf of a patient with severe brain damage resulting from the excessive administration of asthma medication.
  • $4 million – for a person who was left quadriplegic due to an anesthesiologist’s failure to respond to a dangerous drop in blood pressure during spinal surgery (brought case as legal malpractice action against patient’s former lawyers for their failure to hire proper expert witnesses).
  • $2.575 million – for a patient with brain damage caused by a failure to respond to symptoms of a post-surgical stroke.

Act now to put our medical lawyers to work for you. Do not let the statute of limitations expire on your rights. Millions of dollars could be at stake.

You can fill out the online evaluation form, or call us now TOLL-FREE at 1-877-292-6491 (1-866-4-LAWDOC) and one of the experienced team members at our leading medical malpractice law firm will get back to you shortly.

* The facts of every case are different, so past successes are not a guarantee of the outcome for any future case or lawsuit.