Medical malpractice is horrifying. When you check into a hospital, you are investing a lot of trust in the facility in your health and wellbeing. There are a thousand things that could go wrong, and do on a regular basis.
Recently, we had a baby in the hospital for RSV. One night, when he was about to be injected with an antibiotic, my wife noticed a huge air bubble in the syringe. The nurse was about to inject my son when my wife called it to her attention. The nurse stopped, looked mortified, and then cleared the air bubble before the injection. When she was done, she hurried out of the room, and we never saw her again. Our son was there for eight days, so I'm sure her shift overlapped with our stay, but I have a feeling that after that experience, she lost face.
Later, a nurse we know about it, and she tried to reassure us that a lot more air would have to have been injected for there to be any real damage. My son was only one month old at the time, and I don't think that it would have taken very much air to have hurt him.
Another time, I was visiting my great-grandmother in a nursing home. She was suffering from dementia and was in the last couple weeks of her life. When the medication rounds started, a nurse came in, addressed her by the wrong name, and proceeded to divvy out her pills. I stopped her, giving her my great-grandmother's real name. She stared at me, horrified, and found the right prescription. I have no idea if that was the first time, or if they had been giving her the wrong medication the whole time she was there. Who knows how it affected her quality of life, and depending on the medication, it may have even caused the dementia. She died shortly thereafter with no inquisition, so we will never know.
There are wonderful doctors in Cherry Hill and in Pennsylvania, but if you suspect that you or someone you care about is the victim of medical malpractice, don't take matters into your own hands. Call an attorney, have an investigation conducted, and set right what could be a horrible wrong in your life. If you doubt that you should act, think of the next person; someone's mother, father, or child, that could be hurt through the pattern of negligence that has affected you, and do something to protect the same thing from happening to them.
Author Resource:-
Gayle Lewis Esq. (http://www.attorneylewis.com/) is a boutique plaintiff medical malpractice litigation Firm with offices in both Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Art Gib is a freelance writer.
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