Medical Malpractice

When you enter a hospital, clinic, or doctor’s office for treatment, you go with the expectation that the doctors, nurses, and hospital staff will take care of you and see to it that your ills are cured and your pain minimized. What you probably don’t expect is that something will go wrong. Fortunately, for most people hospital stays and doctor visits go as planned, and life continues as usual. But for less fortunate patients, their medical experience can turn into a nightmare, especially when you consider the Canadian Institute for Health Information’s report that 24,000 Canadians are killed every year from medical mistakes.

Patients can suffer from a variety of medical mistakes, including prescription drug mix-ups, surgical errors, wrong-site surgical mistakes, surgeons that perform operations on the wrong patient, blood transfusion errors, objects left inside a patient after surgery, hospital acquired diseases, botched pathology, and more. The price a patient pays for this kind of medical negligence can range from unnecessary scars, excessive pain, organ or system failure, loss of a limb, temporary or permanent disability, to disfigurement or even death.

Recovering from a medical mistake can take months, years, or may not even be possible. Some patients live with the effects of medical errors for their entire lives, and the most unfortunate patients lose their lives. Recovery can be slow and expensive, and can include additional hospitalization, further corrective surgery, painful rehabilitation, or physical therapy. You may even be facing a devastating loss of income if you are unable to work because of your injuries or if your ability to work is affected by the therapy you need in order to rehabilitate.

Additional Challenges Facing Medical Malpractice Victims

One of the biggest challenges facing victims of medical mistakes is the public perception that medical malpractice lawsuits are only brought about by victims and lawyers who are looking to turn a profit. Mistakes by doctors or hospitals happen – and it isn’t always their fault, or at least that is what doctors and their lawyers want you to believe. With all the anti-litigation sentiment in Canada – and the backing of powerful physician defense organizations like the Canadian Medical Protective Association (CMPA) – making the decision to pursue a medical malpractice case can be a difficult one indeed. In fact, the statistics are daunting. Of over 1,000 medical malpractice lawsuits brought against Canadian doctors every year, the majority of cases are settled in favor of the physician.

However when you consider whether or not to pursue legal action, take into account your own personal suffering, and the uncertain future that you face after a serious medical mistake. You may not be able to work again, you may be physically or mentally incapacitated, or you may have suffered unspeakable pain – all of which could have been prevented. While accidents do “happen”, there is always a reason – and if the reason is that a medical professional was not doing their job, then they should be held accountable for their mistakes. There is no reason that you should suffer physical, emotional, or financial hardship because of an event that could have been prevented had the people you trusted been doing their job.

Leveling the Playing Field for Medical Malpractice Victims

Ches Crosbie Barristers was established in 1991 and we are dedicated to helping accident victims level the playing field against powerful insurance companies and well-financed medical defense teams. We pride ourselves on representing legitimate claimants with good cases.

If you are a resident of Newfoundland and Labrador and have suffered from a medical mistake, contact Ches Crosbie Barristers to find out if your case meets our test for accepting a good case with provable negligence and causation and significant damages. Residents of this province can also receive our innovative consumer book, 7 Deadly Sins That Can Wreck Your Injury Claim, absolutely free.

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A1C 1B1
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