Sixty-four survivors of medical malpractice from 21 states sent a letter to President Obama today expressing extreme concern that the rights of medical malpractice victims have become a “political bargaining chip” in the President’s efforts to sell his health care plan, and that their rights may be stripped away as a result. Reports now indicate that the President supports measures that would drastically limit injured patients’ rights to trial by jury by allowing biased medical societies or politicians to make liability decisions. The group of malpractice survivors has requested a meeting with President Obama to express dissatisfaction with the President’s willingness to include far-reaching medical malpractice limits in his national health care proposal.
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Over the years our firm has handled many cases involving medical negligence to that of both adults and children. A brief list of some of the types of cases handled involving healthcare malpractice or nursing home negligence are as follows:
- Failure to diagnose breast cancer.
- Failure to diagnose throat cancer.
- Failure to diagnose larynx cancer.
- Nursing home negligence of a catastrophically brain injured adult.
- Failure to diagnose a fracture in a minor child which led to post-traumatic arthritis and multiple level joint fusions in the foot.
- Failure to remove a towel/sponge during surgery which caused ongoing abdominal pain for many years up until removal.
- Failure to diagnose and timely treat or repair an esophageal perforation
- Child birth cases.
- Wrongful Death.Contact the Kornfeld Washington Medical Malpractice Law Firm today.
