The firm's personal injury and wrongful death litigation includes injury cases which originate when medical errors and mistakes are made.
The law of medical malpractice defines negligent medical conduct as the doing or the failure to do something that a reasonably prudent health care professional in that field would or would not do under the same or similar circumstances. A plaintiff's medical malpractice lawyer must present expert testimony on the standard of care required of professionals in the field of the defendant. Normally, the lawyer must prove that the defendant breached or failed to adhere to that standard of care, causing the plaintiff's injury. A negative result in medical treatment in and of itself does not mean that the doctor committed malpractice. Medical treatment carries with it no guarantee of success. Many medical procedures involve risks which cannot be avoided even if the doctor exercises great caution.
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