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Learning that the doctor or medical facility you trusted with your care caused you harm feels like a distressing betrayal. In the worst cases, a medical provider’s malpractice can leave you facing permanent or even catastrophic injury. You have the right to seek financial accountability and justice through a medical malpractice lawsuit against the negligent…

Medical malpractice is a uniquely complex category of personal injury law, requiring both medical and legal knowledge for a compelling claim. One of the most important resources an experienced medical malpractice attorney possesses is access to renowned medical expert witnesses.There are several reasons that medical expert witnesses are crucial to a successful claim.For a Certificate…

Medical providers such as individual doctors, hospitals, and healthcare facilities must meet the medical community’s required standard of care when treating a patient. Unfortunately, not all providers uphold this standard, and instead, they make errors and oversights or behave negligently when diagnosing and treating a patient. Injured patients have the right to file medical malpractice…

Undergoing surgery requires placing our trust and our lives into the hands of a surgeon and surgical team while we are unconscious and completely vulnerable. Patients place themselves in this position when they need serious medical intervention with the expectation that their doctor will treat them within the high standard of care accepted by the…

Surgery places a patient in a vulnerable position, lying unconscious on the operating table while a surgical team performs a procedure with their patient’s literal life in their hands. Medical ethics laws require providers, including surgeons, to perform at the medical community’s accepted standard of care. Surgical care does not stop after the closing stitches….

Doctors and other medical providers are legally required to uphold the medical community’s accepted standards of care, including informing patients about their medical condition and the results of diagnostic tests. Unfortunately, doctors sometimes are negligent, cut corners, or allow important tasks to slip through the cracks. When an administrative error or doctor oversight occurs, and…

Some of our favorite television shows are focused on heroic action in hospital emergency rooms, but the reality of ER care is often far more chaotic, careless, and less inspiring. Emergency rooms are a common setting for medical malpractice, especially for preventable errors such as misdiagnosis, missed diagnoses, or delayed diagnosis. An ER doctor’s job…

Delayed diagnosis is an all-too-common type of medical malpractice in Chicago and elsewhere. Fortunately, most cases of delayed diagnosis don’t cause fatality; for instance, when a doctor’s delay in diagnosing bronchitis causes a worsened condition that’s quickly corrected after an accurate diagnosis and appropriate treatment. But what about a delayed diagnosis of cancer, or a…