Common Forms of Medical Negligence
Doctors and other medical professionals commit many different types of medical mistakes that injure or even take the lives of patients. These mistakes include:
- Birth Injury: failure to respond effectively to signs of fetal distress, resulting in injuries such as cerebral palsy, Erb’s palsy and brain damage due to oxygen deprivation
- Failure to Diagnose: misdiagnosis or failure to diagnose cancer or another serious medical condition with a resulting injury
- Surgical Errors: wrong-site surgery, failure to follow infection-control procedures, anesthesia errors and other failures to exercise care
- Medication Errors: prescribing or administering the wrong drug or the wrong dose.
These are only some of the most common medical errors that can cause serious personal injury or death to Rhode Island residents. Other errors can easily occur as well when health care professionals fail to treat patients with proper care.