Working in an emergency room means working long hours under intense pressure. Any situation can come through the door at any time. It’s a pressure cooker of a job, and the doctors and nurses who help people in emergencies deserve recognition and gratitude for their commitment to saving lives.
Unfortunately, patients don’t always receive the emergency care they deserve. Favorable outcomes aren’t guaranteed, but certain mistakes are simply unacceptable. At LawMD, we hold negligent hospitals and careless ER doctors accountable for their errors. The bottom line is that no patient should have to pay the consequences of a doctor’s mistake or a hospital’s failure to provide proper care.
Emergency rooms in the U.S. treat approximately 136.3 million patients every year. Some of these cases involve minor injuries, such as cuts and sprains. Other cases involve life-and-death situations, from car accident injuries to heart attacks. Mistakes can happen in any situation, however, some errors occur more often than others.
Common emergency room errors include:
Additionally, certain health problems are more prone to misdiagnosis in emergency rooms. These cases include heart attacks, strokes, meningitis, and infections. When patients are misdiagnosed and sent home, a treatable condition can quickly deteriorate into a life-threatening health crisis. In the most catastrophic cases, a patient dies hours or days after being sent home by emergency room staff.
Because emergency room personnel work in a high-pressure environment that requires rapid decision-making, they are held to a different standard of care compared to health professionals in other specialties. Nevertheless, they are still responsible for negligence and unacceptable errors that endanger patient safety and cause harm and death.
In an era of overcrowded hospitals and understaffed health care facilities, emergency room errors are, unfortunately, on the rise.
Many factors contribute to these unfortunate mistakes, including:
In some cases, emergency room mistakes occur because a doctor or nurse is too fatigued to deliver the proper level of care. In other situations, emergency rooms attempt to reduce their patient volume by glossing over symptoms or minimizing the severity of a patient’s complaints.
Patients injured by emergency room doctors and nurses may be entitled to compensation for their injuries. Possible damages include pain and suffering, medical bills, lost wages, loss of earning capacity, permanent disability, future medical care, mental anguish, and other losses. The law limits the amount of time you have to file a claim for an emergency room error, so it’s important to act quickly to protect your rights. If you wait to speak to an law firm, you could miss your opportunity to get the justice and compensation you deserve.
If you believe you have been the victim of an emergency room error, our Baltimore emergency room error lawyers may be able to help you. Call today to receive your free case evaluation. You can also reach us by email or through our online contact form.
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