Several hundred thousand New Yorkers head to emergency rooms every year with the expectation of getting better from treatment. Unfortunately, medical errors sometimes happen in emergency room settings, resulting in permanent injuries to or the deaths of some patients. If you have been harmed by medical mistakes that happened in the emergency room, you may be able to recover damages for compensation of your losses.
Several hundred thousand New Yorkers head to emergency rooms every year with the expectation of getting better from treatment. Unfortunately, medical errors sometimes happen in emergency room settings, resulting in permanent injuries to or the deaths of some patients. If you have been harmed by medical mistakes that happened in the emergency room, you may be able to recover damages for compensation of your losses.
If you file a medical malpractice civil lawsuit against the doctor, hospital and staff that made the errors, you will find that proving that the injury was caused by negligence is complicated. You will need to get copies of your medical records and determine at what point the error was made.
Medical errors in emergency rooms can happen at many different points of the stay. Commonly, diagnostic errors, including misdiagnoses and failures to diagnose, happen when people present to the emergency room. You may also have been injured when a test that should have been ordered was not. It is also possible that your medical tests, such as MRIs or X-rays, were ordered but were not read correctly. You will need to identify the particular error that happened as well as what a doctor in the same position would reasonably have done in the same situation.
Our attorneys have represented many clients who have suffered harm because of emergency room medical malpractice. We help them by figuring out what type of error occurred and what should have been done instead. We often work closely with medical experts who are able to give their opinions about the applicable standard of care and whether the duty to follow it has been breached. If you need more information about how we might be of assistance, you might want to review our emergency room malpractice page.
