Emergency Room Errors

Emergency Room Error Lawyer - Erie, Pennsylvania

Hospital Emergency Rooms (ERs) are the most stressful worksites in the healthcare profession. Doctors, nurses, surgeons, and all other healthcare professionals take great pride in the quality of care administered in the ER. During your visit to the emergency room, you may have been confused, upset, or even unconscious. You had to trust those responsible for your care. In no place in medicine is it more critical that medical professionals maintain a professional standard of care, and that hospitals properly staff and train doctors, nurses, and other personnel than in an emergency room.

Unfortunately, emergency rooms are the site of numerous medical accidents each year - accidents that may result in unnecessary, permanent disabilities, even wrongful death, on the part of the patients involved. Poorly trained emergency room doctors or nurses, understaffed hospitals, or ill-equipped emergency rooms may result in fatal errors in emergency treatment of patients.

At our Erie, Pennsylvania, medical malpractice law firm, we help victims and their families pursue compensation for their losses due to medical errors. If you would like to meet with Attorney David Hunter to discuss your case, contact our office to schedule a free consultation.

When a patient is not given the proper attention during their admission or treatment, an emergency error may result. Emergency room errors may include the following forms of medical malpractice:

• Medication errors / prescription errors
• Failure to diagnose bacterial infections
• Birth injury
• Omissions error
• Misdiagnosis of strokes, heart attacks, or infections
• Negligence in emergency room treatment of spinal cord injuries resulting in brain damage or paralysis
• Patient "dumping"

Over 225,000 people die from medical-malpractice-related injuries in a single year. Nearly half of those are from emergency room errors. As your legal counsel, we will work diligently to help you recover money for medical expenses, loss wages, pain and suffering. We understand after an injury, you are under stress and have concerns about medical bills and lost wages. There are no attorney fees unless you recover damages.

Medical malpractice attorney David Hunter is familiar with hospital and ER policies and procedures. If your care in an emergency room resulted in a failure to diagnose your condition properly, a misdiagnosis of a stroke as a lesser condition, birth injury to your baby, or some other injury, you may have reason for a lawsuit. If you would like to discuss your emergency room experience with Mr. Hunter, contact our law office and make arrangements for a free consultation.

Consultations are free. We don't get paid until you do.

Contact Attorney David Hunter for help with your claim. Our law office is located in downtown Erie, Pennsylvania, within three blocks of both the federal and state courthouses, and provides free parking that is handicap accessible.