Harrisburg Surgical Error Lawyer
A great deal of thought and effort is put into determining the potential dangers of surgery and warning surgical patients of the risks in advance of an operation. There are stacks of paperwork filled with legalese, all designed to ensure that a patient can give properly informed consent to a procedure.
But all of those precautionary warnings are based on the assumption that the surgery and all associated care will be performed and managed correctly, and – astonishingly – that does not always happen. Perhaps the most confounding and unacceptable form of medical malpractice, wrong site surgery is the name for a mistaken procedure in which a surgeon or nurse does any of the following:
- Performs a surgery on the wrong patient
- Performs the correct procedure on the wrong body part or organ
- Injects an anesthetic into the wrong location
Holding Surgeons Accountable
Healthcare providers and institutions try to place blame on insufficient pre-surgery verification steps, but acknowledging that does not solve the problem of wrong site surgery, which is estimated to occur nearly 3,000 times each year in the United States.
There is no justifiable excuse for any of these violations of patient trust, and the Harrisburg wrong site surgery lawyers of Lowenthal & Abrams, P.C. are committed to helping the victims and families of this atrocious demonstration of medical malpractice.
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Obviously, the potential harm that may be done by a misdirected surgical procedure is extensive. Damaging a patient’s only healthy kidney or trying to repair the wrong knee could possibly kill or otherwise seriously compromise the victim’s health. Yet the problem persists, and families like yours are caught in the crossfire of their incompetence and poor communication.
Hold surgeons and other medical personnel accountable through legal action so that they will be compelled to exercise greater caution in the future. Contact the Harrisburg wrong site surgery lawyers of Lowenthal & Abrams, P.C., at 215-329-3511.