Los Angeles Lawyer on Taking up a Medical Negligence Case Against a Pediatrician
Children’s health is a major concern for every parent and if a parent notices any sign of illness in their child, they rush to a medical care center. Pediatricians are experts in children’s health and medication. Any parent will feel comfortable entrusting their child to a Pediatrician. Sometimes the diagnosis may go wrong and the specialist prescribes the wrong medication to a child. It may happen also during a medical operation. As lawyers, we have a right to take up a case against the Pediatrician.
Understand what constitutes medical negligence
We understand what constitutes medical negligence by a pediatrician. if you come to us for advice, our Los Angeles personal injury attorney will first sit with you to examine if your situation can be termed as negligence. If a medical practitioner fails to observe the laid out standard care to a patient, it is termed as negligence. The standard care can be in terms of correct diagnosis, advice, surgical procedures, information, and many more.If we confirm the pediatrician failed in any area, we will take up a case against him or her. Some of the areas we have noticed most pediatricians neglect are as follows: –
Wrong medication
Most of the cases on wrong medication are serious. A parent comes to the personal injury lawyer LA with a sickly child. After a few minutes of interrogation, we discover the child received the wrong medication. Wrong mediation can cover any of the following areas: Wrong administration where the pediatrician administers wrong drugs to the child. It can also be a case where the child was overdosed or under-dosed or even given drugs at the wrong time. The error may also occur at the dispensing point or during transcription. Whatever the point the error occurred our injury lawyers will take up a case of medication errors that grossly affected the health of the child.
Wrong diagnosis
The wrong diagnosis occurs when a pediatrician writes a report that a child is suffering from disease A when they are suffering from disease B. The turn of events will be that the child will be given wrong medication, wrong therapy, and the like. Some of the diseases that are commonly misdiagnosed are Meningitis and Appendicitis. Our personal injury claims lawyer will help you sue the pediatrician for neglecting their duty to correctly diagnose a disease.
Surgical negligence
Surgical negligence occurs when a child is booked for a surgical procedure that was never necessary. The pediatrician may also book the child for the right surgery but they administer the wrong anesthesia, leave some surgical accessories inside, or remove the wrong organ.
What our legal advisors do
Our Los Angeles personal injury attorney handles every situation uniquely and first ascertains if you have a case. If our legal advisor confirms you qualify to make a claim, we review your case and sometimes seek a medical expert opinion of what the medical professional should have done.
Contact Jance Weberman for legal help in Los Angeles
There are many parents who are less concerned with what happens in the pediatrician’s consultation room and beyond. A lot of procedures could go wrong and the parent is made to believe it was supposed to happen that way. If you notice any sign of medical negligence, do not hesitate to seek help from Jance Weberman on telephone number (213) 386-9100