Alabama Medical Negligence Attorney

What is medical negligence? The legal definition of negligence is causing injury or harm to another person as the result of an action or failing to provide a proper level of care. As such, medical negligence is described as negligence committed by a professional in the field of medicine. This may be virtually any health care professional: a nurse, doctor, anesthesiologist, surgeon, general physician, dentist, plastic surgeon, etc. These professionals are held to a high standard of conduct because they deal with such delicate matters. One mistake can literally mean the difference between the life and death of a patient.

Being the victim of medical negligence may mean that you will suffer serious injury. Fortunately, Alabama injury law offers victims injured by medical negligence the opportunity to seek justice and recover financial damages for what they have endured. At the Law Offices of Timothy A. Hughes, we are dedicated to helping patients throughout Alabama with these claims.

Examples of Medical Negligence

The potential types of medical negligence are virtually endless, as this may be any action or inaction on the part of a health care professional that results in substandard care. However, following are several examples to shed light on this serious problem:

• Improperly evaluating a patient’s symptoms, listening to a patient and conducting tests, resulting in the failure to diagnose or a misdiagnosis of a medical condition.
• Making a mistake in prescribing a medicine to a patient, such as prescribing or administering the wrong medication or the wrong dose.
• Failing to note down all pertinent information in a patient’s chart, leading to a misdiagnosis or medication error.
• Failing to properly monitor a patient during surgery.
• Poor postoperative care following surgery, resulting in infection.

If any of these describe something you have experienced, or even if you simply have a "gut feeling" that a doctor made a mistake or was negligent in any way when it came to your diagnosis, treatment or postoperative care, it is important that you consider involving an attorney. A professional experienced with medical negligence cases in Alabama can talk to you about what occurred and can determine whether you have grounds for legal action. The next step will then be to begin building a case against the negligent doctor, nurse or hospital.

Contact Alabama medical negligence lawyer Timothy A. Hughes today to schedule your free consultation.