Effective Representation When You Suffer From A Physician’s Error

You might have been injured because of physician malpractice that occurred during a visit or stay in a clinic, private office, hospital or nursing home.  The injuries can be serious, chronic, or permanent – leaving you with emotional, physical, and financial hardship. Our lawyers realize how difficult it can be to live with the outcome of a physician’s malpractice and offer you our compassion along with skilled advice and strong advocacy.

When a medical mistake due to negligence or incompetence occurs that results in disability or death, it is time to take legal action. The attorneys at the Jacob Fuchsberg Law Firm know which doctor and surgeon errors warrant litigation.

When it comes to physician and surgical errors, we have the knowledge and expertise to determine which ones are “actionable.” We then offer you advice on how to proceed and stand by your side throughout subsequent filing of your lawsuit through trial. We want you to receive just compensation for any and all serious physical harm caused by your doctor’s or surgeon’s mistakes, including for pain and suffering, loss of enjoyment of life and any economic loss including an inability to continue to work.

Of course, doctors and surgeons are only human, and thus subject to making the same mistakes as the rest of us. Still, when their errors result in serious or long-term injury, disability or death, you may be entitled to a substantial cash award. This is especially true if your attorney’s investigation of your case shows that some form of negligence, incompetence, or malpractice contributed to your poor medical outcome.

Our attorneys will help you determine whether a case against your doctor or surgeon is worth pursuing, how much of an award  you are entitled given the particulars of your case, and then diligently pursue your lawsuit to its favorable conclusion.

Crucial elements to establish according New York City’s physician malpractice laws:

• The doctor departed from good and accepted medical practice and failed to diagnose a patient’s medical condition; and

• The failure to properly diagnose was the cause, or a substantial part of the cause, of the patient’s injury.

Your lawyer has to be able to demonstrate to the jury’s satisfaction what would have happened to you if the physician had made an accurate diagnosis and establish the injuries that did occur because of the doctor’s incorrect diagnosis.

Physician’s malpractice is most often associated with failure to make a proper diagnosis, resulting in serious injury or death, but there may be other situations to which it applies. Birth injuries, prescription errors, eye doctor and dentist mistakes, and other negative medical outcomes may be considered physician malpractice as well.

Our attorneys have achieved a myriad of successful results for medical malpractice victims in a vast array of medical specialties including surgical cases involving heart bypass, heart valve replacement; ophthalmologic surgeries involving cataract and lasix procedures, liver transplantation surgeries to both donor and recipient; pancreatic surgeries involving Whipple’s pancreatico duodenectomy, gallbladder removal, also known as a cholecystectomy, orthopedic surgeries involving spinal fusion spinal discectomy, knee and hip replacement procedures; neurosurgery to the brain including clipping of aneurysms, craniotomy, and other complex surgical treatments.