Louisville Personal Injury Lawyers

Medical malpractice cases in Louisville

Doctors, hospitals, and all other healthcare providers owe patients a duty to provide competent medical care. Competent medical care generally means care that complies with Louisville and Kentucky medical standards for the type of medical care/practice they provide. You have a right to expect that your physicians will meet or exceed those standards.

Our Louisville medical malpractice lawyers hold healthcare providers accountable when they cause patients harm due to any type of medical error, including the following:

• An improper or delayed diagnosis. An incorrect diagnosis/misdiagnosis means that a patient doesn’t receive the treatments they need and that the treatments they do receive could cause additional harm. Many medical malpractice cases involve the failure to make a timely diagnosis – such as delaying the diagnosis of a nursing home resident who is having a stroke, a patient who has an infection, or a patient who has heart disease or other diseases. A delayed diagnosis can be fatal or prevent the proper treatment from being provided.
• Prescription errors. These errors include failing to prescribe or fill the correct drugs, failing to consider the adverse side effects and interactions with other medications, and failing to review the patient’s allergies. Medication errors also include administering the wrong drug or the improper dosage at the wrong time and using the wrong drug delivery method. At Crandall & Pera Law, we file medical malpractice claims against doctors, nurses, pharmacists, and other health professionals.
• Surgical errors. These medical malpractice mistakes include operating on the wrong patient or the wrong body part. Surgical errors also include failing to anticipate and respond to emergencies, failing to use the proper technique, failing to monitor the patient, and leaving instruments in the patient.
• Anesthesia mistakes. These surgical errors usually involve using too much or not enough anesthesia. Anesthesia mistakes can be fatal.
• Doctors should understand the symptoms of infections and what diagnostic tests to order. Hospital infections such as MRSA infections are very dangerous. Hospitals can be held accountable if they fail to keep their premises sanitary and fail to properly recognize or treat hospital infections.
• Laboratory and radiology errors. Patients can file a medical malpractice claim if their doctors fail to order the correct imaging and blood tests or fail to read the results properly. Radiologists and other medical technicians can be held liable if they fail to conduct the tests correctly. For example, missing an early-stage cancer reading can be fatal.
• Other medical errors. We handle any other type of medical malpractice, depending on the patient’s medical condition and treatment.

At Crandall & Pera Law, we work with medical experts who can testify about what medical mistakes were made, why they were preventable, and who is responsible.