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Medical Malpractice

Hippocrates, the father of modern medicine, wrote of a doctor’s obligation “to help, or at least to do no harm.” Yet by hospital negligence, a patient can be seriously harmed by the failure to diagnosis, failure to treat, or to properly treat a condition. Such professional malpractice can result in serious injury or death. If that happens, you should hire an attorney experienced in medical practice to protect your rights.

An Institute of Medicine study in 1999 has shown that medical and hospital malpractice accounts for up to 225,000 deaths annually in the United States. This may be a conservative estimate; the true number of wrongful deaths may be even higher. This estimate does not even include those seriously but not immediately fatally injured by birth trauma, brain injury, cerebral palsy, neurological injury, cancer misdiagnosis, negligent emergency room care, and a host of other injuries that maim and ruin lives but do not result in immediate death. According to a National Patient Safety Foundation survey, 42% of people believed that they have personally experienced medical mistakes.

How can you determine if you have been a victim of medical, hospital, dental, or podiatric malpractice?

To do that you should hire an attorney that is experienced, and dedicated to finding out the truth. We read the records with the help of an on-staff medical professional and then have the records reviewed by medical experts in the relevant specialty of medicine. What is written between the lines, or not written at all, is often as important as what the records themselves say. We have the medical know-how, legal knowledge, cutting edge presentation technology and trial experience to present your case in a clear, concise and understandable manner to a jury. At Pearlman, Apat & Futterman our medical malpractice team of Ira H. Futterman and Martin M. Seinfeld has over 65 years of combined legal experience fighting for clients injured by malpractice.