Any type of procedure, surgery, course of treatment, prescription, or interaction with a healthcare adviser could result in damages if the provider’s conduct was unreasonable, unnecessary, or negligent.
This includes – but is not limited to:
- Diagnostic errors
- Delayed treatment
- Failure to consider family history or prior health concerns
- Failure to diagnose
- Failure to follow up
- Failure to order tests
- Miscommunications between doctor and lab
- Misdiagnosis
- Misinterpreting or overlooking symptoms
- Misreading images
- Misreading scans
- Misreading test results
- Missed Diagnosis
- Unnecessary course of treatment
- Pharmacy errors
- Drug interactions
- Failure to prescribe pharmaceuticals
- Prescribing incorrect or unsafe doses of pharmaceuticals
- Surgical errors
- Accidental damage to tissue or organs
- Anesthesia errors, including seizures, stroke, cardio issues, paralysis, and awakening during procedure
- Contamination or infection caused by negligence
- Failure to monitor patient’s condition during surgery
- Failure to remove surgical implements
- Failures to follow correct procedures in the operating room
- Incorrect use of surgical tools
- Operating on wrong body part or on the wrong patient
- Perforation of organs or other accidents caused by poor surgical skills
- Removal of wrong organ
- Unnecessary surgery