Medical Malpractice and Prescription Errors
When medical professionals and pharmacists make mistakes, those mistakes can cause serious injury or wrongful death. Led by attorney Richard Mark Gergel, our medical malpractice lawyers have excellent reputations for holding medical doctors and hospitals responsible for the injuries they cause. Contact the attorneys at Gergel, Nickles & Solomon in Columbia, South Carolina.
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In medical malpractice cases, our law firm relies on our own substantial experience, and we have used expert witnesses from prominent medical faculties including the University of Virginia, Johns Hopkins University, Duke University, and other medical schools.
- The failure to diagnose cancer—especially breast cancer and colon cancer—can turn a treatable illness into an early death. If a loved one died because of misdiagnosis by a doctor, tell us about it.
- Improper evaluation of a patient's condition in an emergency room can cause serious injury or death. If the ER staff fails to recognize the symptoms of diabetes, an aneurism, or meningitis, the consequences can be catastrophic.
- Even routine surgery can be turned into a dangerous situation when there are surgical errors—a punctured organ, sepsis infections, or operations on the wrong part of the body.
- A pharmacist has a duty to counsel patients about contra-indicated drugs, drug interactions, or possible interactions. The pharmacist may be more aware of all the drugs a patient is taking than the prescribing physician.
- When the pharmacist (or a less-skilled assistant) makes an error in filling a prescription, a patient's life could be at risk. Filling the prescription with the wrong dosage or filling it with a similarly-named drug can be dangerous.
In a complex medical malpractice case, contact the personal injury lawyers at the Gergel, Nickles & Solomon law firm. We serve clients anywhere in South Carolina. Free consultation for all personal injury, medical malpractice, and products liability cases.
