A right call to the power of Attorney

Hospital staff lose vision of their job and a single careless mistake can cost a person’s life in moments. And what of the family that’s pushed into grievance when all they hoped was for their healthy relative to recover from the treatment from the best hospital they could afford?

What’s even fair?

Wrongful death in hospitals has to stop. With such technological advancement in this age when the price of treatments soar high day after day, does it make sense to have medical malpractice or ethics issue to come between the life and death of the person in the treatment bed ? No amount in compensation from the government can ever suffice for the lost soul’s life. When we talk about medical malpractice or medical negligence, we’re in the common patch where these two can co-exist.

Things about Medical Malpractice you must know:

Malpractice or negligence, either of these terms denote one simple thing : departure from the right standard of care. It’s not almost always that the outcome of a procedure or care treatment doesn’t work for a patient that it becomes negligence or malpractice of any kind. In many cases, the doctor only does what he/she is supposed to do, get the job right from his/her side. It’s the complementary of the cases that we’re concerned about :

• Did the doctor do something that the other doctors won’t given the same situation?
  
• Did it lead to a bad scenario only because of the specific procedural deviation by the doctor ?
  

Then, it can be rightfully qualified as Medical negligence/malpractice.

The statute of limitations

You realise how serious this problem has become when you hear this particular statistic put up by the Institute of Medicine in the United States:

Yearly, around 44 thousand to 98 thousand people die in the US due to the medical errors done to themand if you even begin to consider the cases that go unreported, it really blows your mind. Texas is no different than the other states and you can be fairly assured that death by negligence is a considerable number here in Amarillo, TX.

Here's where the statute of limitations stand against negligence in medicine :

• You have one year from the day of malpractice to file the claim or else you lose all rights to do the same.
  
• Alternatively, file within one year from the day you knew its malpractice or should have known it was.
  
• Under no circumstances can this be more than 3 years from the day of medical negligence.
  

The healthcare industry has some perks in the form that not only is the statue a little bit short but also there’s always a cap on the damages. The numbers start to look really bleak if you take into account this statistic that says, “only 0.3% of the total costs of medical negligence are settled in an year”, which gets outrageous when you realise that even half  the amount of that small percentage are just attorney expenses for the plaintiff.

Get in touch with an attorney

Amarillo, Texas sees a lot of incidents every single day and sometimes it gets tough when your family member is a victim of a dysfunctional local healthcare system or the on-road public. Wrongful death includes heavy accidents on highways, a car wreck or a hit-and-run that puts you on the dark side, but it is still a case worth fighting for. Sign up for a consultation with an able Amarillo attorney and talk about your case and you might have a solution waiting around the corner.