Although hospitals, doctors, nurses, and other health care providers are usually skilled and dedicated, they sometimes make unreasonable mistakes. Unlike most other mistakes, however, the consequences of a medical error can be devastating to a patient or their family.
When a health care provider makes an avoidable mistake that causes a patient’s injury or death, the patient or their family has a right under Vermont law to file a medical malpractice claim and collect compensation.
Medical malpractice claims are usually complicated and require experienced lawyers. Our team of attorneys and paralegals at O’Neill Kellner & Green (including a former nurse) has successfully handled dozens of medical malpractice cases, including ones involving the following allegations:
• A surgeon’s failure to diagnose a post-surgical bleed, leading to the patient’s death.
• A hospital’s failure to properly attend to a groggy patient in a hospital bathroom, leading to the patient falling and dying.
• A surgeon’s failure to properly perform a laparoscopic cholecystectomy, leading to bile leakage and a serious infection.
• An endocrinologist’s failure to diagnose diabetes insipidus in a young child, leading to several difficult years for the child and his family.
• A surgeon’s failure to properly monitor a patient’s nutrition after a gastric bypass operation, leading to a vitamin deficiency causing partial paralysis in the patient.
• A radiologist’s failure to properly read an MRA scan, causing the radiologist to miss an aneurysm that later burst, resulting in catastrophic injuries to a 37-year-old patient.
• A surgeon’s negligent performance of a biopsy, cutting a nerve and then failing to repair the nerve damage, causing the patient to suffer a permanent upper extremity injury.
• A hospital Emergency Room’s failure to properly diagnose and treat testicular torsion in a young man, resulting in his loss of the testicle.
• A surgeon’s failure to diagnose an abscess after a sigmoid resection, leading to serious complications for the patient.
• A hospital’s administration of an insulin overdose to an inpatient, triggering a diabetic coma.
• A surgeon’s negligent performance of a laparoscopic esophagectomy, leading to the patient’s death in the Operating Room.
• A surgical nurse’s failure to account for all laparoscopic sponges used during a surgery, resulting in a sponge being left in the patient, causing the patient significant pain and requiring a second surgery.
• A surgeon negligently performing back fusion surgery on the wrong discs, causing permanent injury to the patient.
If we agree to handle your case, we work on a contingency fee basis and only get paid if you are awarded money.
If you have been a victim of medical negligence, call us. There is no obligation, and our experienced attorneys can offer an honest and straight-forward evaluation of your case. We’re here to help.
