Medical Malpractice

When you or a loved one go to the doctor or hospital, you expect to get well. You never expect to be seriously injured, get an infection, or worse, die, due to a mistake made by a medical professional. When medical malpractice is involved, catastrophic injuries do happen, the physical, financial and emotional damage can…

If you are the victim of medical malpractice, you are entitled to be compensated for both economic losses and non-economic losses. Your chances of recovering money depend on the unique facts of each case and may also depend on whether you hire an experienced Tennessee medical malpractice trial attorney. Keep in mind that compensation almost…

When things go wrong in a Tennessee doctor’s office, hospital, or other medical facility, the harm can be temporary and inconvenient. But sadly, many medical mistakes can be life threatening or worse. If this has happened to you, the future can look pretty scary. As Memphis medical malpractice lawyers, we see lots of people like…

Many people want to know what is sepsis and how do you get. Sepsis is caused by a severe infection that has spread to a person’s blood stream. When a person begins to exhibit the signs and symptoms associated with sepsis, the patient’s condition is serious and will usually require treatment in an intensive care…

You have heard the horror stories – medical instruments and sponges being left inside a patient during surgery, and operations on the wrong body part, the wrong side of the body or even the wrong patient. In some cases, the post-op care is neglected and serious infection results. And while these medical mistakes are rare,…

No one wants to undergo surgery, but sometimes there is no way around it. So, we go into the operating room expecting that everything will go well. But sometimes, medical mistakes are made and great pain and suffering can be the result. Anesthesia complications are one type of medical mishap that can end in injury…

Emergency departments exist for one primary reason: to protect those who are seriously ill and who are at risk of dying. When you visit the emergency room in Tennessee, you have the right to expect that the doctor will recognize common signs and symptoms and treat you appropriately. Unfortunately people are misdiagnosed every day. Common…

There isn’t a single one of us who cannot appreciate the constant advances in United States hospital care. Thanks to ongoing research and technology, many diseases and injuries that would have resulted in death 50 years ago are being successfully treated. However, there is one frightening prospect when we enter the hospital that has nothing…

According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, at least 100,000 people die each year from medical mistakes made by doctors. Our Memphis medical malpractice lawyers list seven medical mistakes commonly made by Tennessee physicians that could potentially put your life at risk. Failure to take patient history: Before prescribing a treatment plan,…

A recent study has estimated that U.S. doctors make more than 4,000 surgical errors each year. More than half of these errors involve an object that is left in the body. Most of the time, these objects are sponges. Indeed, sponges are left in the body often enough that the injuries resulting from this type…