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ER/Hospital Mistakes

Emergency Room Errors ∙ Hospital Negligence

Emergency room errors generally result not from the doctor or nurse's lack of concern, but from cost-cutting measures on the part of the hospital administration—corporate decisions that result in personal tragedies.

At Michels & Watkins we are medical malpractice attorneys. We hold health care organizations throughout California and surrounding states accountable for emergency room errors and hospital negligence. If you or a member of your family was seriously injured as a result of the actions of ER or hospital staff, you deserve to know what happened. Please contact our Los Angeles office and arrange a free medical/legal consultation. Our lawyers and medical team will evaluate your case and give you a clear explanation of what they find.

ER and hospital mistakes rooted in negligence

Our attorneys have been representing victims of medical malpractice for over twenty years, and have heard hundreds of stories of hospital and emergency room errors. Often if a doctor or nurse would have taken one extra step—called for an expert consult, ordered a test, checked the hospital record for allergies—an injury or death could have been avoided. Examples of cases that constitute negligence include the following:

  • Understaffing or staffing an ER or critical care unit with under-trained staff or students—if you should have been seen by a doctor, but saw a nurse practitioner, or your triage was performed by a nursing assistant instead of a registered nurse, the hospital or physicians' group staffing the emergency room was inappropriately cutting corners.
  • Inadequate triage and misdiagnosis—in one case an emergency room doctor failed to diagnose signs of an aneurism, instead sending the patient home, where she later collapsed and died. Misdiagnosis of an infection, spinal cord injury, heart attack, or appendicitis can result in serious or fatal injuries.
  • Lost records, failure to note a reported drug or food allergy
  • Medication errors, drug overdoses
  • Poor hand washing practices leading to hospital acquired infections

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Questions regarding an emergency room error? Contact our LA office and arrange a free medical consultation. At Michels & Watkins our medical staff, led by Bradford S. Davis, M.D., will help you find out what went wrong. If a member of your family was injured as a result of medical negligence, our attorneys will hold those responsible accountable. Our Los Angeles firm serves clients throughout California and surrounding states. Our staff and our lawyers provide far more than legal services, giving our clients the support they need to survive following tragic medical accidents and other acts of negligence.

Attorneys at the Law Offices of Michels & Watkins in Los Angeles serve clients in communities throughout Southern California, including Orange County, Riverside County, San Bernardino County, Santa Barbara, and Sacramento; central and northern California, the San Joaquin Valley, and the Bay Area, including Fresno, Modesto, Stockton, and San Francisco; and communities in surrounding states, including Las Vegas, Nevada, Seattle, Washington, Phoenix, Arizona, and Denver, Colorado.