When a severe adverse medical event occurs, hospitals must follow the protocols in place. They are required to proactively investigate and implement new protocols to prevent the same mistake from happening again. Generally, hospitals must follow a process called a root cause analysis (RCA) to investigate contributing factors and implement corrective actions. A hospital investigation after a medical error...
Continue ReadingAny unexpected complication or medical injury can be scary, frustrating, and devastating to you and your family. However, not every complication, bad result, or injury constitutes medical negligence. Contact our firm to discuss your case today. Medical Negligence vs Complication: Was It an Unavoidable Complication or Malpractice? Did the doctor deviate from the accepted standard of medical care, or...
Continue ReadingThe success of most Maryland medical malpractice cases depends on expert witness testimony. These cases are often highly complicated, riddled with medical jargon and complexities, and legal nuances. Maryland law has certain threshold requirements that must be met before you can proceed with your lawsuit. In most Maryland medical malpractice cases, a qualified medical expert is necessary to satisfy...
Continue ReadingWhen you go to a doctor for medical care, you do not expect to leave in a worse position than how you came in. Permanent brain damage is just that: permanent, which means it will be with you forever. Not only does brain injury impact the victim, but also their family. If you suspect a delay in diagnosis or...
Continue ReadingIf your family has received a cerebral palsy diagnosis after a birth injury, it can feel terrifying and insurmountable. It can be particularly devastating if it was otherwise a normal and healthy pregnancy, and you had no reason to believe the baby would not be born healthy. A cerebral palsy diagnosis will change a family forever: physically, emotionally, and...
Continue ReadingWhen you go into the hospital to have your baby, you expect that the doctors, nurses, medical staff, technology, and equipment there will keep you and your baby safe throughout labor and delivery. If you have given birth or someone you love has, you know that part of the process is fetal monitoring. One of the first things labor...
Continue ReadingYou went into labor expecting the hardest part to be the delivery itself. Instead, your baby was diagnosed with a brain injury, and no one has given you a straight answer about why. You keep replaying the hours leading up to delivery, wondering whether the delay was ever explained to you. A delayed C-section malpractice claim exists to answer...
Continue ReadingIn the days and months following a delayed or incorrect cancer diagnosis, it can be overwhelming to understand what went wrong and what comes next. A missed diagnosis, a false negative, or a healthcare provider telling you that you have the wrong type of cancer can change the course of treatment, and in some cases, the outcome itself. If...
Continue ReadingNurses are a crucial component of most medical facilities. This includes floor nurses monitoring patients in the hospital, nurse practitioners treating patients at clinics, mobile nurses providing in-home care, and nurse midwives who deliver babies, just to name a few. All of these types of nurses, and countless others, are expected to perform their duties within the standard of care....
Continue ReadingSome of Maryland’s largest medical malpractice verdicts have involved catastrophic injuries that juries concluded resulted from preventable failures in care. While the medical circumstances vary, many of these cases share a common pattern: warning signs that, according to the evidence presented at trial, were overlooked, delayed, or not acted upon until the patient’s condition had significantly worsened. Looking at...
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