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Medical Malpractice

Nobody expects doctors to be miracle workers.
 
Nobody expects medical personnel at a hospital or clinic to cure inoperable cancer, or to set a man in a wheelchair walking again.
 
People in Gainesville and surrounding areas have realistic expectations of their surgeons, doctors and nurses. If they are sick, they want to be made well (if possible.) If they are injured, they want to be healed (if possible.)

A correct diagnosis and competent and efficient treatment is certainly not too much to ask. And for the most part, the medical personnel at the clinics and hospitals around Gainesville, Ocala, Lake City and Inverness provide exactly that. But there are occasions where patients don’t get what they should. A diagnosis is missed. A nurse at an understaffed hospital misreads a prescription. A surgeon leaves a sponge or surgical tool inside the body cavity without realizing it.

While there are many ways in which a doctor or surgeon can make a preventable error, some of the more common causes of medical malpractice are:

Missed or Late Diagnosis: If a doctor does not recognize a condition as serious, the results could be fatal. A medical professional that fails to correctly diagnose a disease or condition until it too late is not helping his patients. If, for instance, cancer is found early, a patient stands a very good chance of recovery. But if a doctor fails to act on clear warning signs in a patient, he or she could be held liable if the cancer isn’t discovered until it’s too late.

Wrong Diagnosis: Many medical problems manifest themselves in ways that are similar. If a doctor diagnoses what is easy instead of what is correct, he or she should be made to answer for their decisions if the patient suffers as a result.

Prescription Errors: With the thousands of drugs that are available for almost every conceivable ailment, it is almost inevitable that mistakes will be made when the prescriptions are filled. According to a study by the Institute of Medicine, an estimated 1.5 million patients are sickened, injured or killed by being prescribed the wrong medication or dosage.

Birth Injuries or Deaths: Birth injuries can be caused by any number of reasons, including misapplication of forceps, or complications resulting from a breech birth or caesarean section. The effects of the injuries can be both physical (as is the case with Erb’s Palsy) or can cause serious damage to the brain (cerebral palsy.)

In successful medical malpractice lawsuits, experience is everything!

You need to have an attorney:

With knowledge of medicine,
With courtroom experience,
Who understands how insurance companies operate.

Victims of medical malpractice anywhere will need dedicated and experienced legal counsel, and those who live in Gainesville, Ocala, Lake City, Inverness and all of North Central Florida should consult us at Jeffrey Meldon and Associates.

In the 37 years since I founded Jeffrey Meldon and Associates:

My law firm has helped medical malpractice victims and their families get back on their feet by using skill, expertise, and experience to secure fair compensation for their injuries.

Medical malpractice is a specialized form of personal injury law, in that the attorney must have knowledge of proper medical procedure and must know when it has been violated. 

 “Jeffrey Meldon not only has an encyclopedic knowledge of medical and surgical procedures, but also routinely consults with some of the foremost medical experts in Florida. He is an expert at making it clear to judges, juries and arbitrators exactly what went wrong, as well as letting them know exactly what the victim lost.”

In my law office, it is of utmost importance to me to only hire the most qualified and experienced attorneys and support staff, all of our medical malpractice clients in Gainesville, Ocala, Lake City, Inverness and all of Alachua County and North Central Florida can expect aggressive and forward thinking legal counsel.

Since I am selective with my client base, I do not take every case; it allows me to make sure that every one of our medical malpractice clients receives the full scope of our experience, resources and time. None of our clients ever “fall through the cracks.”

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Blog for Medical Malpractice

• Medical Mistakes - Is Voluntary Reporting Working in Florida?
• Choosing Your Doctor....Tips-Part One
• Who Is Behind Tort Reform? Part 3 on Tort Reform
• WHY GIVE UP YOUR HEALTH CARE RIGHTS in Ocala or anywhere in Florida? Part 2 on Tort Reform
• Free Health Fairs Could Cost You, Beware - Part 2
• Free Health Fairs - BEWARE! they may not be free nor good for you. Part 1
• ATTENTION ALL PATIENTS: CALL AND GET YOUR RESULTS!
• Wrong site surgery; tips on how to prevent it happening to you in Ocala.
• Patients are facing a Medical Malpractice crisis! Part 2
• Patients are facing a Medical Malpractice crisis! Part 1

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Frequent Questions for Medical Malpractice:

• What is medical malpractice?
• What is informed consent?
• My doctor’s treatment caused me injury; can I sue him for malpractice?
• What can I be compensated for in a Florida medical malpractice claim?
• Why am I having trouble finding a lawyer to take my medical malpractice case?
• Do I need to hire a lawyer for my medical malpractice case?
• What are the Statutes of Limitations regarding medical malpractice?
  

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