We are contacted by people who want to sue their doctors on a daily basis. What makes them feel the need to do so? In fact, there are many “patients” who have been mishandled and mistreated with dire consequences who do not consider suing. Why is this? Why do some people seem eager to forgive […]
Doctors are successfully sued regularly. Why don’t you hear about it? The simple answer: gag orders. In every case where settlement is achieved, one of the things the plaintiff trades for cash is silence. Doctors don’t settle lawsuits without the promise of the plaintiff’s agreement not to discuss the specifics or even that they were […]
Article by: Kathryn Griffin, Student-at-Law Just because you were injured by the negligence of a doctor, it does not necessarily mean that you will have a successful medical malpractice case. Your medical malpractice lawyer would also tell you that you have to prove that the negligence caused the injury. For example, let’s say a patient […]
Should you? There seems to be an unhealthy reluctance to avoid holding the medical profession accountable for errors. Yes, I did say “errors”. It would be a rare case indeed where a physician intended to do a patient harm. Does that mean that the doctor should not be accountable to maintain a certain standard of […]
