Finding A Malpractice Lawyer
By Ken Burgess
Do you know what medical malpractice is ? Medical malpractice is a term that is generally used to describe any treatment, lack of treatment, or other departure from accepted standards of medical care, health care, or safety on the part of a health care provider that causes harm to a patient.
You know it probably feels like healthcare is no longer the personalized service it was even only ten years ago. Today, with the pervasiveness of managed care companies and other insurers, your doctor, the one person who should know your healthcare needs the best, is often a slave to your HMO or PPO. While doctors have access to more medical devices, diagnostic tests and drugs than ever before, the insurance companies have been, and will continue to be, motivated not by your best interest but rather their own bottom line - and that's scary, disgusting and tragic - but it's also a reality. Because of the increased pressure placed on doctors by insurers to operate highly efficient offices, you've probably noticed that personal time spent with your doctor has likely declined over the past several years. And the horrific result is that there are more misdiagnoses and medical errors.
In fact, statistics on medical malpractice reveal that for every medical error reported, over 50 go unreported. But you should have to pay for your healthcare provider's negligence....
It's so crazy now that some doctors are refusing medical treatment to lawyers, their families and their employees except in emergencies, and strangely, doctors are now urging the American Medical Association to endorse that view. Professional medical societies are trying to silence their peers by discouraging doctors from testifying as expert witnesses on behalf of plaintiffs. And a New Jersey doctor who supported malpractice legislation that his colleagues opposed was ousted from his hospital post.
What are you to do ? If somebody's hurt you and they were negligent then they weren't doing their job properly....
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