Pittston Medical Malpractice Lawyer

Have you or a loved one become injured due to medical malpractice in Pittston? Medical malpractice can occur when a healthcare professional or medical facility fails to act correctly within the standard of care, which results in injury to someone. Often these injuries can be permanent and 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 an incorrect operation based on condition
• Failure to perform adequate testing for diagnosis
• Performing surgery on the incorrect part of the body
• Delaying the diagnosis of a condition or disease

Medical malpractice can happen with other medical professionals, not just doctors. Nurses and pharmacists can also commit medical malpractice by providing incorrect dosages or wrong medications to patients. 

In Search Of A Medical Malpractice Lawyer in Pittston?

Malpractice cases can often require more resources and preparation in order to accurately evaluate and build a case. It’s crucial that you have the best medical malpractice lawyer in Pittston to represent you in court. It’s also important to have other medical experts testifying for you in court. 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 however, we ensure that the damages in the case justify these added 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 in most cases, the collecting of evidence is very important. With malpractice cases, it is important to collect copies of medical records as soon as possible to prevent any changes in medical records or even the deletion of medical records.