Wilkes Barre Medical Malpractice Lawyer

Have you or a loved one fallen injured due to medical malpractice in Wilkes Barre? Medical malpractice occurs when a healthcare professional or medical facility fails to act appropriately within the standard of care, causing injury to someone. Often these injuries can be permanent and/or decrease one’s quality of life or even result in death. The standard of care is the level of care that a qualified practitioner would provide a patient based upon their illness, symptoms, or condition.

Often, the failure of the standard of care is caused by:

• Failure to fully advise a patient of risks with treatment
• Post-Operative mismanagement
• Failure to diagnose or misdiagnosis of a condition
• Performing the wrong operation based on condition
• Failure to perform adequate testing for diagnosis
• Performing surgery on the incorrect part of the body
• Prolonging the diagnosis of a condition or disease

Medical malpractice can happen with more than just doctors. Pharmacists and nurses can also commit medical malpractice in the actions of providing wrong dosages or incorrect medications. 

In Need of A Medical Malpractice Lawyer in Wilkes Barre?

Malpractice cases usually require more resources in order to accurately evaluate and begin to prepare a case. It’s imperative you have the best medical malpractice lawyer in Wilkes Barre to represent you in court. Additionally, you'll need a medical expert to state facts in court to back your case. The expert who is signing the certificate must also be the same expert who testifies at trial. It also requires a separate certificate for each professional against whom a claim is brought and for each claim.

Each expert can be expensive. We ensure to take extreme measures so that the damages in the case justify these additional costs.

Expert Qualifications:

• Possesses an unrestricted physician license in any state
• Be actively engaged in the field of practice or retired within the last five years
• Must be board certified (if the defendant is the same)
• Be familiar with the applicable standard of care relevant to the case
• Must practice in the same sub-specialty (or similar) with the standard of care

As with all cases, the collecting and filing of evidence is extremely important. With malpractice cases, it is crucial to obtain copies of medical records as soon as possible to prevent any changes or deletion of medical records.