Medical malpractice

Medical malpractice occurs when a physician or other medical professional deviates from the standard of care and causes harm to a patient.  The standard of care is based on what treatment is exercised by reasonably competent medical providers when confronted with patients exhibiting similar conditions.  Doctors and medical personnel should be trained and equipped to recognize potential or actual medical problems and respond properly either through diagnosis and management or a referral to someone competent to diagnose and treat the condition or problem.

More often, medical negligence occurs through inattention or indifference rather than incompetence. Yes, there are some incompetent medical professionals, but most mistakes are made because of economic pressure and the motivation for profit by medical institutions.

Other mistakes occur because competent providers assume the individual patients suffer from the most common cause of signs and symptoms rather than less common but often more dangerous conditions.  Doctors frequently see the same symptom trends so many times that they fail to consider the fact that a smaller percentage of those patients exhibiting those same signs have a more complicated and dangerous condition.  These actions subsequently yield incorrect medical management.
The most common types of misdiagnoses are:

Not all negative outcome is caused by medical negligence.  Often, poor outcomes are complications of certain conditions, comorbidities, treatments, and procedures.  They also occur in the absence of medical negligence.  

If you or a loved one has been a victim of medical negligence, please call Miguel now.  You are not alone and quality of life matters.