Have you or a loved one experienced life-changing harm at a San Diego hospital or medical facility? Malpractice claims can stem from surgical errors, misdiagnoses, medication mistakes, birth injuries, and other types of medical negligence.
Few malpractice law firms match Moseley Collins Law’s extensive credentials, medical-legal acumen and trial courtroom experience focused on catastrophic injury cases statewide. Our clients’ peace of mind is paramount.
Misdiagnosis or Delayed Diagnosis
Medical professionals must accurately identify a condition in order to prescribe appropriate treatments. Unfortunately, misdiagnosis or delayed diagnosis is an extremely common form of medical malpractice that can have severe and devastating consequences.
Symptoms often overlap, making it difficult to distinguish one disease from another. For example, heart pain can be mistaken for indigestion or even a panic attack. As a result, patients can suffer unnecessary suffering from treatment that is ineffective or worsens their conditions, such as administering chemotherapy for an unidentified cancer.
Our experienced Poway hospital negligence lawyers understand how a misdiagnosis or delayed diagnosis can affect a patient and their family. We can help by proving that a healthcare provider breached their established duty of care through an identifiable action or inaction that falls below reasonable standards.
Birth Injury
When medical negligence or wrongdoing occurs during a birthing process, it is called a birth injury. Birth injuries can be temporary and resolve quickly, or they may be debilitating both physically and neurologically, lasting a lifetime.
For example, the lack of oxygen during a birth can cause brain damage that results in cerebral palsy. Similarly, physicians pulling on an infant’s neck during delivery can crush nerves in the shoulder and arm, leading to Erb’s Palsy.
Children who are disabled from a birth injury must often receive extended treatment and care that can be very expensive. Working with an experienced birth injury lawyer, families can pursue financial compensation to pay for past and future costs of care and other expenses. The lawyers at Moseley Collins Law can investigate what went wrong and build a strong case on your behalf.
Medication Errors
Patients can suffer serious harm when doctors administer medication wrongly. These errors often involve misdiagnoses, prescribing or dispensing drugs in the wrong dose, incorrect patient profiles, and drugs with similar-sounding names that can easily confuse caregivers.
Medication error victims can receive substantial financial compensation for quantifiable monetary losses. Settlement funds typically cover lifetime care costs, special transportation expenses, home modification costs and loss of income from disability.
Proving medical negligence demands a lawyer with substantial legal and medical knowledge. Skilled attorneys at Moseley Collins Law use their resources to line up expert testimony affirming clear breaches of accepted medical standards. This enables victims to establish malpractice and secure fuller justice. Proven California trial expertise further elevates settlement amounts resulting from meritorious cases. Our team guides families purposefully through the procedural pathway to closure.
Surgical Errors
Although avoiding surgical errors is impossible, medical professionals can take steps to minimize them. Common types of surgical errors include operating on the wrong patient due to identification errors, administering incorrect doses or types of anesthesia, leaving sponges, needles or other instruments inside a patient’s body, and injuring nerves during surgery.
Surgical errors can be caused by lack of training and insufficient preparation, poor communication between medical professionals, and fatigue. Surgeons may also use improper techniques and tools, or cut, clip or damage tissue, nerves, organs or arteries.
If preventable healthcare negligence during treatment, surgery, childbirth or prescriptions has harmed you or a loved one in Escondido or elsewhere in San Diego County, the responsive attorneys at Moseley Collins Law can leverage four decades of specialty legal experience to guide victims toward stability, closure and reasonable accountability. Contact us today for a free case assessment.
Hospital Errors
Patients expect and trust their healthcare providers to deliver competent medical care. But unfortunately, medical mistakes occur, violating this trust and causing devastating patient injuries.
Determining whether medical malpractice occurred requires discerning clearly breached accepted standards of care from the evidence at hand. Meticulous records review often uncovers timeline inconsistencies, communication gaps, negligence red flags, and other documentary evidence. Reputable medical experts then unambiguously explain how the provider’s actions or lack of action deviated from what reasonable peers would have done under the same circumstances.
If you or a loved one suffered catastrophic injury at hospitals like Sharp Grossmont Hospital, Palomar Health Downtown Campus, or South Bay Family Health Center in Chula Vista and elsewhere in San Diego County due to apparent lapses in standards of care, please connect today for transparent guidance from proven California trial lawyers. Economic damages may cover quantifiable expenses including medical costs, nursing assistance costs, lost income and funeral bills for wrongful death claims.