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Failure to Diagnose:
Mishkind Law Firm Co., L.P.A., with offices located in Cleveland, Ohio, have experience with many
types of medical malpractice cases. If you or someone you know has experienced a permanent and serious personal injury resulting from a medical professional's failure to diagnose, please contact our office.
Medical professionals can be held liable for the following:
- Misdiagnosis
- Failure to Treat
- Delay in Treatment
- Delay in Diagnosis
- Heart Attack
- Cancer Cases
- Diabetes
- Infection
- Kidney, Urinary Tract Diseases
- Pathology/Lab Error
- Radiology: X-Ray Error
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Birth Injury:
Birth injury means any brain injury to a child during labor and/or delivery. Its causes include oxygen deprivation (asphyxia), infection, and physical injury resulting from forceps, vacuum extractors or continued labor in the face of cephalopelvic disproportion (CPD). Current technology allows obstetricians to recognize the risk of asphyxia, infection and difficult delivery so that timely diagnosis and early intervention can avoid injury.
During the birth process, newborns can sustain injury to the nerves that serve the shoulder, arm and hand. This generally occurs after the baby’s shoulders become stuck in the birth canal (shoulder dystocia). This neurological condition, called Erb’s Palsy, affects the growth and usefulness of one’s arm. A rarer form of this injury is Klumpke’s palsy which results in hand and eyelid dysfunction. Modern obstetrical medicine has developed safe techniques to relieve shoulder dystocia and avoid these types of injuries.
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Cerebral Palsy Injury:
Mishkind Law Firm Co., L.P.A., with offices located in Cleveland, Ohio, have experience with many types of cerebral palsy cases. Our attorneys have tried over 20 birth injury/cerebral palsy cases.
Neurological injury: Children with cerebral palsy and/or mental retardation may have sustained those injuries as the direct result of obstetrical negligence around the time of birth. Cerebral palsy is a physical condition resulting from brain injury that affects coordination and motor skills.
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Anesthesia Negligence:
Medical malpractice injuries can occur when anesthesia is improperly given or not given in a timely manner to a patient during a surgical procedure. If an anesthesiologist causes injury or death to a patient, damages may be recoverable under the laws of medical malpractice. Most doctors and hospitals carry malpractice insurance, and some states even require that they contribute to a state patient’s compensation fund.
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Nursing Home Neglect:
Americans are living longer than ever before. The fastest growing segment in the United States population is the elderly population. As a result of this demographic shift, many elderly Americans have become residents of nursing homes during their final years. As many of these nursing homes are under-funded and understaffed, a disturbing incidence of neglect and abuse has been reported. Injuries sustained by nursing home residents due to neglect and abuse often involve the inappropriate use of physical restraints, joint contractors, overuse of sedatives, unnecessary use of urinary catheters, loss of mobility, pressure sores, lack of nutrition and weight loss.
If you have been a victim of medical malpractice, or have lost a loved one as the result of wrongful death in Cleveland, Ohio, or the surrounding cities and counties of Williams, Fulton, Lucas, Ottawa, Erie, Lorain, Cuyahoga, Lake, Ashtabula, Defiance, Henry, Wood, or Sandusky, please contact medical malpractice Attorneys Mishkind Law Firm at 866-435-1682, or complete the contact form on this site to begin your free consultation with an experienced medical malpractice lawyer.
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Pregnancy Related Negligence
Medical mistakes made during pregnancy can cause immediate problems for the mother and child or lead to potential birth injuries at the time of delivery. The attorneys of Mishkind Law Firm Co., L.P.A., in Cleveland, understand the standards of care expected of all medical professionals who treat pregnant women. When doctors, nurses, midwives or other health care providers make mistakes that injure a mother or her healthy fetus, we will pursue financial compensation for our clients. Our medical-legal team represents clients in pregnancy-related negligence cases involving: - Failure to diagnose and treat gestational diabetes
- Failure to diagnose and treat eclampsia or preeclampsia
- Failure to order appropriate tests or respond properly to test results
- Failure to properly manage high-risk births, including those involving multiple fetuses, and advanced maternal age
- Failure to properly estimate the size of the fetus
- Failure to provide the opportunity for genetic testing and explain the patient's options
Our law firm is well known for the results we obtain for clients in pregnancy and birth-related medical malpractice claims. Clients trust the depth of our experience in the issues surrounding pregnancy-related negligence. We have the legal and medical knowledge required to achieve positive results in these challenging cases.
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Hospital Negligence
When patients are seriously injured by negligence, the hospital may be at fault. In an attempt to cut costs and improve profitability, hospitals can reduce staff and cut corners, leaving patients at risk. The attorneys of Mishkind Law Firm Co., L.P.A., in Cleveland represent clients who were injured by medical malpractice. We hold hospitals responsible for negligence that results in serious injury or wrongful death of patients. Hospital negligence can include: - Nursing negligence
- Failure to diagnose
- Failure to establish and enforce proper standards of care
- Inadequate staffing
- Inadequate training or supervision
- Medication errors, including improper dosage and mistakes administering medicine
- Surgical errors
- Emergency room errors
- Inadequately equipped facilities
- Failure to prevent infection
Our medical malpractice lawyers understand the responsibilities of hospitals. We can determine whether the hospital from which you sought treatment met their responsibilities in your specific case. If they did not, we will aggressively pursue full compensation for damages, including pain and suffering, medical expenses, lost wages or income, loss of future earning capacity and more. Every time there is a bad outcome that injures or kills a hospital patient, the hospital must do an analysis of what caused the problem and what they can do to prevent similar events in the future. We do our own analysis and investigation to determine whether the hospital was responsible for harming a patient.
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Surgical Negligence
Every year in the United States, thousands of patients are needlessly harmed by preventable surgical errors - mistakes that never should have happened. When doctors, nurses or others fail to follow accepted standards of care, and patients are harmed or die because of it, the attorneys of Mishkind Law Firm Co., L.P.A., are available to pursue financial compensation for the injured parties or their survivors. We are Ohio's medical malpractice lawyers. Our medical-legal team has won millions of dollars in verdicts and settlements for patients injured by surgical malpractice. We represent clients in a wide range of surgical malpractice cases, including those involving: - Errors in laparoscopic and bariatric surgery
- Errors in interventional procedures
- Post-operative surgical errors
- Anesthesia errors
- Surgical objects left behind
- Nicking or perforating organs
- Failure to monitor post-operative patients for complications
- Medication errors
It can be difficult to know if your condition was caused by a surgical error. If your condition was made worse, rather than better, by the surgery or if you required additional procedures to correct an unanticipated problem, it is wise to consult a lawyer to determine whether malpractice occurred. We can review your surgical records, looking for evidence of deviations from standards of care for surgical procedures that may have harmed you. If we suspect malpractice occurred, we will send your medical records to a respected surgeon for review and evaluation.
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Cancer Cases
The American Cancer Society estimates that 562,340 Americans died of cancer in 2009. A small portion of those deaths were due to medical malpractice. Doctors' negligence and procedural errors can lead to misdiagnosis. Undetected, a cancer that could have been treated effectively can grow into a terminal case. The attorneys of Mishkind Law Firm Co., L.P.A., in Cleveland, have the legal and medical knowledge to determine whether medical negligence was involved in your case. With more than 80 years of combined experience and on-staff medical professionals, we have the knowledge and resources required to analyze and pursue challenging cases involving the misdiagnosis and mistreatment of cancer. Our lawyers have achieved successful outcomes for clients in cases involving the misdiagnosis, delayed diagnosis and mistreatment of breast cancer, lung cancer, colon cancer and many other types of cancer. Cases may involve: - Failure to do proper cancer screening
- Misinterpretation of test results
- Failure to read and respond appropriately to test results
- Failure to treat the cancer aggressively
Doctors and hospitals will often claim that there was nothing they could have done - even if they had detected the cancer earlier. That assumption does not sit well with our clients or with us. We don't expect doctors to perform miracles, but we do expect them to treat patients according to accepted standards of care. Even in cases in which a person's own choices, such as smoking, caused or contributed to the cancer, doctors cannot write the patient off as a lost cause. They are obligated to provide appropriate treatment or refer you to someone who can provide it.
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Cosmetic Surgery Malpractice
Cosmetic Surgery is any medical procedure performed for the purposes of improving the physical appearance of the patient. This can be a matter of simple vanity, just wishing to improve one’s appearance or reconstructive surgery aimed at fixing a deformity from an accident, medical abnormality, or birth defect. The results can have many positive influences on the emotional and physiological well being of the patient. This is especially true in the cases of reconstructive procedures restoring a person’s confidence and self esteem. Unfortunately not all cosmetic surgery has the desired effect and can even lead to health complications. A cosmetic surgery mistake may happen during any of the procedures below: - Laser Surgery
- Hair Replacement
- Laser Facial Resurfacing
- Mentoplasty - Chin Surgery
- Otoplasty - Surgery of the Ears
- Blepharoplasty – Eyelid Surgery
- Abdominoplasty - Tummy Tucks
- Forehead and Brow Lifting Procedures
- Liposuction – Removal of Excess Fat Deposits
- Rhinoplasty – Nose Surgery/Nasal Modification
- Mastopexy - Breast Augmentation (Male or Female)
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Medication Errors
Prescription medications have the power to prevent some medical conditions and treat others. They also have to power to cause permanent injury or death if they are prescribed or administered incorrectly. The lawyers of Mishkind Law Firm Co., L.P.A., in Cleveland, Ohio, have won significant amounts of financial compensation for clients who were injured by prescription drug mistakes and medication errors. Please contact us to arrange a free initial consultation if a medication-related error injured you or a member of your family. Doctors, nurses and pharmacists can all be responsible for prescription drug mistakes that injure or kill patients. - Doctors may order the wrong drug or the wrong dosage. They may fail to check for interactions with drugs the patient is currently taking or for allergies to specific drugs. They may fail to consider the implications of the patient's medical history or condition, such as pregnancy or diabetes.
- Nurses may improperly administer the drug, administer the wrong drug or the wrong dosage.
- Pharmacists may dispense the wrong drug or the wrong dose. They may dispense a generic drug when the prescription specifically called for a name-brand drug.
Our legal-medical team includes an on-staff nurse-consultant and three attorneys with more than 80 years of combined experience dealing with medical malpractice cases. This in-house medical knowledge and our years of experience allow us to understand how prescription drug mistakes occurred.
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Emergency Room Errors
In an emergency room, every minute counts. Yet ER patients can wait many hours for treatment. In their rush to get on to the next case, ER doctors and nurses may overlook important symptoms. Patients who need care may be turned away from a hospital and sent home, where they later suffer a life-altering or life-ending medical emergency. The medical malpractice attorneys of Mishkind Law Firm Co., L.P.A., in Cleveland, have won millions of dollars on behalf of clients who were injured by emergency room errors and for the survivors of those who died a wrongful death because of ER malpractice. - Emergency room negligence may include:
- Failure to properly triage the patient
- Failure to treat in a timely manner
- Misdiagnosis or delayed diagnosis
- Misreading or failure to read a medical chart or lab test results
- Medication or prescription errors
- Failure to refer to the proper specialist
- Failure to diagnose and treat heart attack or stroke
- Failure to diagnose and treat a blood clot or pulmonary embolism
- Failure to adequately staff the ER
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