Michigan Physician Negligence Lawyers
The Michigan physician negligence lawyer at Meyers Law PLLC works closely with individuals and families whose lives have been turned upside down due to medical malpractice. Physician negligence can take on many forms. Physician negligence can include misdiagnosis or the failure to properly diagnose a patient. Proper diagnosis of a patient can involve many steps, including taking a proper medical history, listening to a patient’s concerns, taking a patient seriously, ordering proper testing, and reading the test results properly. Doctors are also trained to recognize symptoms of certain conditions, and if a doctor misses these symptoms as a sign of something serious, this could also result in an undiagnosed condition and physician negligence. Other types of physician negligence include prescription errors, improper administration of prescriptions, or a failure of a doctor to check for potential drug interactions. Finally, a physician can make serious errors if he or she fails to properly refer a patient for more intensive care when needed, or prematurely discharges a patient from the hospital.
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Physician negligence can have serious consequences for patients and their families. Undiagnosed medical conditions, or improperly diagnosed medical conditions can be dangerous or deadly. For example, a patient having a stroke or heart attack may only have minutes to receive proper interventions. If a doctor fails to make the proper diagnosis in time, the patient can die or suffer serious disability. Undiagnosed or misdiagnosed cancer can spread, metastasize, or become deadly. Cancer can become inoperable within weeks or even sooner. Early diagnosis is essential.
Patients who have suffered injuries or worsened health due to physician negligence may have the right to seek damages for their losses. The physician negligence lawyer in Michigan at Meyers Law PLLC works with individuals who have been hurt due to medical negligence. We can review your medical history, take stock of what happened, and fight to hold negligent doctors and hospitals accountable.
Medical Gaslighting in Michigan
Misdiagnosis and improper diagnosis of patients is connected to medical gaslighting. Women of color and women in general are more likely to experience medical gaslighting. What is medical gaslighting? Medical gaslighting is when a person is experiencing symptoms and doctors dismiss the symptoms as psychological or when doctors don’t follow up a patient’s complaints with proper testing.
According to Harvard Health, there are serious disparities in how women and men receive medical care. For example, women’s pain is taken less seriously than men’s pain and women are less likely to be given the painkillers they may need. Women are also seven times more likely to be discharged from the hospital while having a heart attack, because doctors may be more likely to look for signs of male heart attack, which differ from the way a heart attack might present in women. Women with heart disease may also not be prescribed medication as often as men.
Women at the hospital complaining of pelvic pain will also be less likely to receive pain medication than men. Doctors may have a bias against women, assuming that pelvic pain is just a normal part of being a woman. Yet, women suffering from serious pelvic pain should receive treatment. In some cases, women suffering from serious pelvic pain may be experiencing endometriosis, a condition not well understood by many doctors, but experienced by many women.
There have been countless anecdotes of women experiencing painful and potentially fatal torsion of the ovaries and being misdiagnosed, all while suffering excruciating pain. Misdiagnoses of this condition can lead to infertility and even fatality. And yet, women continue to be medically gaslighted by physicians. Women’s health issues don’t tend to be taken as seriously as those of men.
And yet, men can also be victims of medical gaslighting as well. Doctors should take the time to listen to your symptoms and provide you with the proper standard of care and testing. When this doesn’t happen, the consequences can be tragic.
If you suffered from physician negligence, you may have the right to seek compensation and damages from your doctor or hospital. If your serious symptoms were ignored. If you were told it was “all in your head.” If you suffered serious illness or losses because you were discharged from the hospital when you had a serious condition, you may have the right to seek damages under the law. The physician negligence lawyer in Michigan at Meyers Law PLLC works closely with women who were misdiagnosed, gaslighted, and hurt as a result of physician negligence.
Common Physician Drug Errors
Physician drug errors can have serious consequences for patients. When prescribing a new drug, doctors have a responsibility to check the dosage, check the name of the drug (to make sure it’s right), and check for potential drug interactions. Doctors also have a responsibility to properly note how often the drug should be taken. Telling a patient to take a pill once a day is dramatically different than telling a patient to take a pill twice a day. There are other considerations that should be made as well. For example, some drugs need to be taken at certain times of the day to work properly, or need to be taken with food. Other drugs cannot be taken in conjunction with other medications or foods.
A common physician error is when a doctor fails to take stock of a patient’s current list of medications and prescribes two medications that interact poorly. Poor medicine interactions can either make medicines less effective, or amplify the effects of a medicine. This can have major implications for your health.
Some serious drug interactions can include interactions between SSRI antidepressants and non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, like something as simple as ibuprofen. Doctors should take a patient’s full medical history when determining whether a patient is a good candidate for a drug. Doctors also should look at what over the counter medicines, foods, and supplements a patient may be taking. Some interactions require fair warning from doctors. A commonly known drug interaction is the risk of taking blood-thinning drugs alongside NSAIDs like ibuprofen. Certain pills interact poorly with antihistamines. Another example is alcohol interacting poorly with certain types of medications. And some foods may interact poorly with certain drugs.
If you or someone you love suffered an injury or illness because of a prescription drug error, you and your family may have the right to seek damages under the law. The physician negligence law firm in Michigan at Meyers Law PLLC works closely with individuals who have been hurt because of prescription errors. If you have been hurt, you may have a limited amount of time to pursue a claim under the law. Reach out to Meyers Law PLLC today.
Contact a Physician Negligence Lawyer in Michigan
Doctors may not always admit when they have made a mistake. If you suspect that your doctor failed to diagnose your condition, misdiagnosed you, or gave you the wrong prescription or dosage, you and your family may have the right to seek damages under the law. If you were released from the hospital too soon and your condition got worse, you may have the right to seek compensation for your losses.
If you were told to have surgery you didn’t need, or if surgery was performed on the wrong body part, you may be a victim of physician negligence. Sometimes physician negligence can be obvious and devastating, like a missed cancer diagnosis, missed heart attack symptoms, missed stroke, or surgery on the wrong body part. But sometimes physician negligence can be more subtle and can come in the form of medical gaslighting, playing down a patient’s serious symptoms, or misreading test results. It can come in the form of failing to warn patients about proper drug interactions, or telling a patient to take two pills a day instead of just one.
All of these mistakes can have serious consequences for patient health and for these patients’ families. If you or someone you love was a victim of physician negligence in Michigan, the physician negligence lawyer at Meyers Law PLLC may be able to help you. Our physician negligence law firm works closely with victims and families to help them seek the recovery they may deserve under the law. Medical malpractice lawsuits can sometimes be complex and require expert opinions and input. They can take time. However, for victims and families, it can be emotionally healing and beneficial to hold responsible physicians accountable.
If you have been hurt due to the negligence of a physician, you are not alone. The physician negligence attorney in Michigan at Meyers Law PLLC is here to help you. Reach out to our lawyer today. We can review your case, help you understand your rights and options under the law, and help you take the next steps.
