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(248) 266-7600While medical malpractice is often associated with surgical errors, the injury lawyers at the Michigan Advocacy Center, PLLC want to make sure Macomb County residents are aware of the many forms medical negligence can take.
Henry Ford Macomb County Hospital does not have the best reviews online. Long waits, rude staff, and even a few cases that sound suspiciously like medical negligence. Indeed, the hospital and its parent organization have endured a fair few medical malpractice claims for everything from birthing injuries to tubing left inside a patient.
However, surgeries and hospitals, even Henry Ford hospitals, are not the only places where medical malpractice can occur in Macomb County. There are plenty of other situations in which medical negligence can occur, and you can be harmed by it. In fact, you might already have been the victim of medical malpractice, or lost a loved one to it, and not even realized it. This article will help you figure out what can qualify for a medical malpractice claim, and where it can occur besides the surgery wards of hospitals like Henry Ford Macomb.
If you even suspect medical negligence on behalf of a doctor or any other medical professional, you should consider calling a lawyer, especially if you have suffered deeply or lost a loved one as a result. In our county and throughout the Detroit metro area, the medical malpractice lawyers of the Michigan Advocacy Center, PLLC will help you figure out if you have a valid claim.
Surgical errors and mistakes, like the length of tubing left in the spine of a man after surgery, certainly make for attention-grabbing headlines (and memorable TV show plotlines). But they are just the best-known, and most obvious, examples of the core principle at the heart of medical malpractice claims: negligence.
There are three essential components to medical negligence that are needed for a doctor (or any other medical professional or institution) to be held liable.
It is easy to see how surgical mistakes could qualify, as you are clearly under the care of someone operating on you, and a serious error is likely to unambiguously lead to harm and damages. However, these conditions do not apply exclusively to the operating room and hospital recovery wards.
The following categories and examples demonstrate how medical negligence can be found in all kinds of other institutions, contexts, and situations across Macomb County. It should not be considered an exhaustive list; however, it should be enough to help broaden your understanding of medical malpractice and make sure that if you find yourself in a similar situation, you know what to do: call a medical malpractice attorney immediately.
While far less dramatic, sometimes even more deadly harm can be done when a doctor does nothing, or fails to do something, especially when it comes to diagnosis. When any medical professional, from a general practitioner to a niche subject specialist, fails to notice something or fails to take your symptoms seriously, it can lead to grave injuries or even death.
Examples: In just the past decade, in Macomb County and other parts of the Detroit Metro Area, the lawyers of the Michigan Advocacy Center, PLLC have seen physicians fail to diagnose:
Surgeries and diagnoses alike are still the domain of doctors and surgeons, but they are far from the only medical professionals who can cause you lasting harm. When you lie down in a dentist's chair in Macomb County, you are trusting some of your most fragile and vulnerable health to their care. If they are negligent and fail to meet the standards expected of that care, you may have grounds to claim medical malpractice compensation.
Examples: If a dentist leaves a portion of a shattered wisdom tooth in your mouth, leading to an infection, crippling pain, or disfigurement, those injuries and their costs could be claimed as part of a medical malpractice suit against them.
Doctors and dentists share more in common than either is prepared to admit, but both rely on nurses and assistants for a significant portion of the care of their patients. In fact, in terms of time and number of interactions, you are more likely to be treated and cared for by a nurse, even in a hospital. Unfortunately, this means nurses are often the ones who make negligent mistakes that lead to harm and malpractice claims.
Examples: Nowhere is this more true than in nursing homes, long-term care facilities or home care nurses across Macomb County. Here, negligence can take the form of:
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The above examples are only some of the many possible incidents in each category of medical professionals that can be held accountable for medical negligence outside a hospital’s surgery room. Pharmacists, physical therapists, even medical institutions or facility staff can all make costly mistakes, and when they do and cause you harm as a result, you need to call a lawyer to talk about making a medical malpractice claim.
In Macomb County, or anywhere in Detroit and its neighboring counties, you can count on the medical malpractice lawyers of the Michigan Advocacy Center, PLLC to hold those medical professionals accountable. To get compensation after a serious medical injury in Michigan, just call (248) 266-7600. You can also schedule a free review of your situation online by telling us a little more about your situation. We look forward to helping you get both the justice and financial compensation you need and deserve.