Fort Collins Medical Malpractice Attorneys

If you’re wondering whether you might have a medical malpractice case, here are some examples of medical malpractice:

• A patient schedules an appointment with their doctor. Although the patient is showing symptoms of cancer, the doctor fails to notice the warning signs. The patient isn’t diagnosed with cancer for six more months. By then, the cancer has spread.
• Following a routine medical appointment, a doctor orders a medication. However, the pharmacy dispenses the wrong dose. The patient has side effects because of the medication error.
• A surgeon leaves a sponge or instrument in a patient after surgery.
• The patient has a chronic condition. A medicine was recently marketed for the condition; however, it is now considered dangerous. The patient has other medical issues, and a reasonable doctor would know not to dispense the drug in light of all of the dangers. The doctor prescribes the medication anyway.
• After using a medical implantation device, a patient suffers side effects. The device had a poor design.
• Errors during surgery cause unexpected and avoidable side effects.
• A doctor who specializes in a particular area of medicine isn’t aware of a rare disease. Because of their lack of knowledge, they fail to make an accurate diagnosis. A doctor with similar training and skill should know about that disease and should have recognized it.

As you can see, there are lots of ways that medical malpractice can occur. The legal standard is whether the level of care used was reasonable, given the training and skill that the healthcare