West Palm Beach Emergency Room Attorney

Contact this West Palm Beach emergency room (ER) mistake/error/negligence/malpractice attorney for help if you’ve been hurt by a doctor or hospital anywhere in Florida. In hospitals, the most hectic places are emergency rooms with patients coming in and out constantly. Usually, emergency rooms doctors and nurses are overworked - creating an environment where serious errors can, and do, take place. However, in emergency rooms, things can naturally get hectic as new patients come into the hospital at a quick pace, and medical providers attempt to treat each new patient. As such, ER staff might easily make mistakes. Anybody who has been injured in an emergency room due to nurses or other medical provider’s negligence might be able to pursue an emergency room malpractice case against the doctors or nurses responsible.

There are a wide variety of errors that can happen in emergency rooms. For instance, emergency rooms medical providers might fail to diagnose some medical conditions such as heart attacks, brain injury/bleeding or strokes. Medical providers in ER’s handling emergencies due to the hectic nature of an emergency room. So, misdiagnosis and failure to diagnose some medical conditions are particularly common in emergency rooms.

Should you be hurt in an emergency room anywhere in Florida (including Miami, Miami-Dade County, Broward County and Fort Lauderdale), call 954-448-7288 to talk to Mr. Quackenbush for free today.

One of the most common emergency room error is failing to diagnose a condition and instead discharging patient. When a medical provider discharges a patient and the patient’s condition later becomes worse, the patient might be able to bring a case. However, you will need to show that, if the malpractice hadn’t occurred, your situation would have been better. That is, the defense in your case may attempt to argue that, even if your treatment had been better, there was nothing the doctors in the emergency room could have done to help your condition. This is referred to as a “causation argument,” and you will need to overcome it in order to pursue a successful case.

Emergency room medical malpractice cases also result when proper tests aren’t ordered in emergency rooms. That is, if a proper test isn’t ordered, your condition isn’t properly diagnosed, and your condition becomes worse as a result, you may be able to pursue a case. Again though, you will need to prove that, if the condition had been properly diagnosed as a result of the test, the condition could have been treatable and you could have been in a better position.

Patients are also frequently discharged from emergency rooms when they should not be. This may occur due to the fast-paced nature of emergency rooms mentioned above. If this occurred to you or a loved one and the condition became worse as a result, you may have a case against the emergency room where it happened.

Surgeries frequently occur in emergency rooms. This is due to the fact that many patients present to emergency rooms with emergency medical conditions. However, due to the fast-paced nature of emergency rooms, surgical errors and mistakes frequently occur. If this happened to you, then you may have a medical malpractice case against the hospital where the negligence occurred.

Should you have been hurt in an emergency room (ER) anywhere in Palm Beach County (including Belle Glade, Boca Raton, Boynton Beach, Delray Beach, Greenacres, Jupiter, Lake Worth, Lantana, North Palm Beach, Palm Beach Gardens, Palm Springs, Riviera Beach, Royal Palm Beach and Wellington), call Mr. Quackenbush at 954-448-7288 now. He will talk to you about your case for no charge.