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Legal Nurse Consultants Help You Recognize And Identify Medical Errors

Category: Uncategorized     Author: Georgina Tyburski     Posted: Friday - January 8, 2016

MalpracticeMedical errors are defined as an adverse effect caused by care, and can include an inaccurate diagnosis or incorrect treatment to an injury, disease, or any other ailment. And while medical professionals are human and cannot be expected to always deliver perfect, 100% accurate diagnosis and treatment, medical errors are actually much more common than the average person might suspect.

The truth is that medical malpractice is currently at nearly-epidemic levels, with over 400,000 deaths attributed to medical errors or other oversights per year. The worst part is that these errors are rarely acknowledged by medical facilities, and outright denials are the norm with the vast majority of medical malpractice cases. Sometimes an acknowledgement can be squeezed out when facilities are under pressure, but this occurs rarely. Individually, physicals are no different and rarely disclose or acknowledge medical errors that eventually go to trial.

This is where the assistance of a legal nurse consultant can be critical. With a robust base of medical knowledge and a sharp eye for detail, a skilled legal nurse consultant can carefully review all documentation and identify gaps in notes left behind by physicals or other medical professionals. A legal nurse consultant is also able to provide shrewd advice to an attorney who is preparing for discovery, or for any other part of a medical malpractice suit. Armed with verifiable, impacting knowledge, an attorney with a legal nurse consultant is a force to be reckoned with as medical professionals can’t rely on the specialized, technical nature of their profession to help them obscure important details.

When dealing with a medical malpractice suit, especially when it involves plaintiffs who insist on outright denying the facts of the case, it is crucial to have a legal nurse consultant on your side. Call us at 877.211.7562 to learn more.

Legal Nurse Consultants USA will be exhibiting at Sixth Annual National Trial Lawyers Summit, February 5-8, 2017 at The Loews Miami Beach Hotel in Miami, FL, we look forward to seeing you there.


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