| Medical malpractice is the very broad term given | | | | estimation of birth date, improper prenatal testing, |
| to a very wide variety of incidences where a | | | | failure to perform C-section in a timely manner, |
| doctor or someone with a medical license makes | | | | diagnostic errors, and failure to treat a condition |
| some sort of mistake that results in the injury or | | | | - Obstetrical mistakes such as failure to recognize |
| death of a patient. Such areas include birth injuries, | | | | fetal distress, failure to diagnose or treat infection, |
| missed or wrong diagnoses, or improper | | | | and failure to respond to complications in a timely |
| treatment. These are just three of many other | | | | manner |
| areas of medical malpractice. | | | | Missed or wrong diagnoses are pretty much |
| Birth injuries are basically any injury to a baby | | | | exactly the way they sound. They involve a |
| during birth that could have been prevented by | | | | doctor misdiagnosing a disease or injury or a |
| action on the part of the doctor that was | | | | doctor not diagnosing something that is there. An |
| responsible for delivering the baby. For instance, if | | | | example of misdiagnosing a disease would be |
| there are difficulties during the delivery and a | | | | diagnosing someone with Type 2 diabetes as |
| doctor does not perform a c-section to get the | | | | having Type 1 diabetes. Quite frequently, these |
| baby oxygen, brain damage can occur. This is an | | | | errors are quite dangerous as they frequently |
| example of birth injury that could have been | | | | involve incorrect treatment. Doctors can also |
| prevented by quicker action or action in general | | | | diagnosis something when a patient is in actuality |
| by the doctor that was delivering the baby. Many | | | | healthy. The opposite of this situation is also true. |
| birth injury situations involve unforeseeable | | | | Improper treatment is also very similar to what it |
| complications that must be treated as best as | | | | sounds like it is. It involves treating a disease or |
| possible when they occur. In other situations, a | | | | injury incorrectly. The incorrect treatment of a |
| birth injury is preventable and may be the result | | | | disease often results in the disease getting worse |
| of medical error, negligence, or malpractice. Birth | | | | or a different disease developing. In order for |
| injuries and birth traumas are often considered | | | | incorrect treatment to be brought into play, a |
| the same thing. Common causes of birth injuries | | | | doctor must first diagnose the disease or injury |
| include: | | | | correctly. Only then can improper treatment be |
| - Complications during pregnancy | | | | brought up as an issue. |
| - Improper dating | | | | These are just three of the many areas of |
| - Complications during childbirth | | | | medical malpractice that personal injury lawyers |
| - Ob/Gyn errors such as mishandling of an | | | | see on a daily basis. |
| instrument, improper delivery technique, Incorrect | | | | |