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Medical malpractice is a serious violation of a patient’s expectation that they will receive medical care that meets the medical community’s accepted standards. While we often think of medical malpractice as blatant trauma, such as amputating the wrong limb, leaving a surgical tool inside a body cavity, or a deadly anesthesia error, sometimes, medical malpractice…

The appropriate medical treatment for any illness, injury, or condition begins with a prompt, accurate diagnosis. When a doctor fails to correctly diagnose a medical condition and causes a delay in the diagnosis, the condition may require more aggressive treatment with adverse side effects, result in a worsened medical outcome, or cause wrongful death.A Chicago…

As the body’s control center and the base of human thought and personality, the brain is our most critical organ. A brain injury is always a frightening diagnosis. Even a mild concussion can have lingering impacts and potential cumulative effects, but a more severe injury can leave the injury victim facing an uncertain future. When…

Few medical diagnoses are as devastating as a spinal cord injury, but when this permanent, disabling injury directly results from medical malpractice, it compounds the trauma and adds elements of anger and frustration, knowing the injury was preventable if only the medical provider had met the required standard of care.Unfortunately, no legal process can erase…

Paralysis is one of the most devastating diagnoses a person can receive, with adverse consequences on all aspects of the injury victim’s life, including their mobility, independence, earning capability, and personal life. When the paralysis occurred as the result of medical malpractice under the hands of a doctor you trusted with your care, it compounds…

Many aspects of medical care require access to safe, well-screened blood products, uncontaminated blood cultures, and proper sterilization of the medical tools that penetrate the patient’s bloodstream or circulatory system. Suffering serious illness from a preventable bacterial or viral infection caused by blood contamination in a medical facility, or receiving inaccurate test results due to…

No one enjoys being in the hospital, and patients look forward to their discharge so they can return home. However, a crucial aspect of a doctor’s and a medical facility’s duty of care is to ensure that a patient is discharged from care safely, at the right time, with the key information and the necessary…

Parents spend months planning their child’s joyous entry into the world, but when something goes wrong, joy can quickly turn to anxiety for the child’s future. Cerebral palsy is one of the most serious outcomes of preventable birth injuries. Unfortunately, no legal process erases the permanent injury to your child, but if your child’s cerebral…