Mistakes Lawyers Know Arizona Doctors Make
According to the Journal of the American Medical Association, over 225,000 people die each year due to medical malpractice. As hospitals become more overcrowded and large HMOs rush more patients through, the errors only become more common — and more severe.
Thousands of people each year find their lives permanently changed by a serious doctor error. They lose limbs, experience chronic pain, have conditions worsened and treatments fail. Some are even killed by a doctor's negligence.
Many people put trust in a doctor's help only to find that the doctor was incompetent, with a history of negligence. This negligence can take many forms:
- Doctor misdiagnosis: When doctors diagnose a condition incorrectly, they waste valuable time treating the wrong condition. Sometimes doctor misdiagnosis leads to treatments do more harm than good, including causing pain and irreversible side effects. Other times doctor misdiagnosis means that the real cause of the pain is never treated.
- Failure to diagnose: Sometimes doctor errors result in failure to diagnose. When test results were switched or when your doctors did not meet the standard of care, it may be possible to hold them legally accountable for their actions. In a country where fewer and fewer people have access to reliable healthcare, failure to diagnose is a growing problem.
- Medicine or pharmaceutical error: Doctors frequently prescribe the wrong medicine or medicine in the wrong doses. Other times, it is the pharmacist who makes the mistake. The wrong drugs can cause pain and severe side effects, but they can also prevent life-threatening conditions from being properly treated.
- Surgical error: Some of the most significant surgical errors are operation on the wrong body part or patient, leaving surgical instruments in the body cavity and failure to diagnose or treat a post-operative infection.
- Birth injury: Birth injuries can have long-term effects on the infants they harm, including permanent mental and physical impairments. When your infant has been injured in a birth accident, it can be critical to work with an experienced attorney.
Our Phoenix, Arizona, law firm — Harris Powers & Cunningham — is dedicated to helping injured patients hold doctors accountable for their actions. We draw on a 25 year history of success to win cases, again and again. Our attorneys are members of the Million Dollar Advocates Forum and the Multi-Million Dollar Advocates Forum as well as AV-rated under Martindale-Hubbell's peer rating system.*
If you have questions about medical malpractice or think a loved one may have become the victim of a doctor's error, please contact Harris Powers & Cunningham by calling 602.271.9344. Located in Phoenix, we are recognized as one of the premier medical malpractice law firms in Arizona. We offer free initial consultations.
*CV, BV, and AV are registered certification marks of Reed Elsevier Properties Inc., used in accordance with the Martindale-Hubbell certification procedures, standards, and policies.
Martindale-Hubbell is the facilitator of a peer review rating process. Ratings reflect the confidential opinions of members of the Bar and the judiciary. Martindale-Hubbell ratings fall into two categories - legal ability and general ethical standards.
