New York Medical Malpractice Lawyer Blog

A three year old child who died at a clinic in Kolsewadi, Kalyan is the subject of a medical malpractice suit. The parents of the child claim that the child died because he did not receive the necessary treatment. They have recently filed a report at the local police station.

The family was in the city at an engagement party. After some time the child starting vomiting violently. This was enough to concern the parents and take him straight to the emergency room of the nearest doctor. The doctor did treat the child. However, by morning the child had died. This was obviously a very upsetting time for the parents.

The parents have alleged that the reason for this boy’s death is because the hospital failed to correctly diagnose the cause of the symptoms. This meant that they prescribed the wrong medicine which did nothing and ultimately lead to his death. The parents are adamant that the child’s death was preventable, and is something that shouldn’t have been allowed to happen.

The hospital denies all the allegations. They state that they took the best care of the child which was possible. The doctor has been handed a statement which explains that someone was with the child at all times. The child was also given standard treatment while the results of various tests came back. The hospital did everything in its power for the little child, and is sympathetic with the Parents pain. The hospital says that they are not liable for the death because they had given the very best standard of care.

The local police department is currently investigating the claim. They are conducting a post mortem to find out the exact cause of death. They will also call on expert witnesses to try and discover whether or not the death was preventable and whether medical malpractice took place.

The police explain that if the expert witnesses suggest that there was negligence then a case will be filed in court for medical negligence. Police in Nassau and Suffolk would handle the case in the same way.

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Medical malpractice happens every day; it's just that most people aren't too concerned with fighting it. Many pensioners try to find a NY Medical Malpractice Lawyer to handle their wife’s death. However, few lawyers would actually want to take this case on because the rewards are not high enough.

But, when someone with more earning potential dies like a doctor, then the wrongful death lawsuit is a real possibility. The doctor died on 23rd April 2010. He was a 35 year old, skilled neurosurgeon. He just got offered a job at a local practice which could see him earning over $2 million per year. This is a huge sum of money, which means his wrongful death is worth a lot of money to any good New York Medical Malpractice Lawyer.

The family of the doctor is currently suing the hospital and the doctors involved in the treatment. Many people believe that doctors look after their own kind, and you might expect that he would of received the very best medical care available. The doctor had been vomiting and had a fever and diarrhea. By 11 PM in the evening he died.

It's thought that the cause of death was sepsis. This is a serious infection which can kill by causing septic shock.

The lawsuit which has been filed alleges that the doctor did not receive the correct treatment for his illness. When the correct treatment was chosen there were several delays which made the condition worse.

The NY Medical Malpractice Lawyer called on two medical experts to assist the case. One was an expert in emergency medicine, and the other an expert in sepsis.

Although the doctor was seriously ill, the emergency doctors did not treat him as such. They did not provide him with the necessary treatment quickly enough.

The level of care was also called into question. The emergency doctors did not check in on the patient nearly as often as they needed to. The ER nurses also neglected to take good care of him. The experts believe that the patient would have been able to survive if he received the right treatment quickly enough.

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