Pre-Paid Legal Advice:

Medical malpractice and professional negligence in Pennsylvania

By Welch, Gold & Siegel – Pre-Paid Legal Services, Inc., Pennsylvania

Medical malpractice happens when a doctor or healthcare provider, whether by act or omission, deviates from accepted standards of medical practice to cause patient injury or death.

Depending on the circumstances, a doctor or healthcare professional or facility would be liable for:

• having a willful disregard to your symptoms or complaints
• telling you to take a medication no matter what the side effects are
• failing to return your calls or direct you to seek medical attention
• botching or misrepresenting cosmetic surgery
• prescribing experimental drugs
• failing to notice symptoms for traumatic brain injury
• failing to have adequate emergency procedures in place for office surgical complications
• prescribing the wrong drugs
• bleeding excessively
• removing the wrong breast, arm, eye, body part
• more scarring
• surgical mistakes
• not accounting for an adverse reaction to anesthesia
• increasing risks for infections which can be fatal by spreading to bodily organs
• septic shock
• failing to diagnose prenatal and childbirth situations that required more trained staff and equipment during delivery
• misplacing files, fail to follow up
• incorrectly reading lab reports and tests

These are just some of the issues related to medical malpractice. The list is endless. You probably know a family member, co-worker, or acquaintance that has experienced medical negligence. It's not uncommon.

Please advise them to contact a lawyer.

Every state has a statute of limitations on how long a person or family can wait to file a medical malpractice lawsuit. The last thing anyone wants is to lose that window of opportunity. Please contact the Pennsylvania lawyers at Welch Gold & Siegel to find out how they can assist you.