QUESTION
If you have Medical Chart notes that reflect a possible hospital malpractice or negligence, but you get no answers from the provider can you sue?
Asked on Feb 18th, 2013 on Medical Malpractice - Hawaii
More details to this question:
I had an extremely bad experience from this hospital last year in March. I was chronically ill, and have reason to believe from the chart notes they may have given me a blood transfusion with the wrong type blood. The chart notes indicate while referring to surgery and blood infusion that there was a supply vs demand mismatch. or vice versa. I now live in Hawaii, but had the surgery in Oregon. One of my doctors read the chart notes and told me they could have killed me. I also had an attorney read them. He suggested he could not take my case but hinted I had justification, but was working with the same hospital so conflict of interest. I was terrorized by this hospital while a patient. I wrote them, but they made out I was hallucinating. This keeps eating at me, However I would need help on contingency.
1 ANSWER
Catastrophic Injury Attorney serving Roseland, NJ
at
John J. Ratkowitz
Update Your Profile
If you have a malpractice case, you are going to have to retain an attorney in Oregon. The question will be whether you have been permanently injured as a result of the medical mistake. If all of your problems have since resolved, you probably do not have a financially viable case. The articles below discuss this issue.
If you want to investigate a malpractice case, you should contact a local medical malpractice attorney (one in Oregon). They take these cases on a contingency basis which means you only have to pay if you succeed. Additionally, initial consultations are usually free. You can use the "Find a Lawyer" service through this website to research medical malpractice attorneys. Then, visit each attorney's website and look for a firm that has a record of successful verdicts, ideally with experience in cases that involve your medical issue. If you are unable to find a lawyer who meets these qualifications within your state, sometimes you may contact an out of state lawyer who can refer you to a qualified attorney in your state while providing support related to the issues of medicine.
Below are some articles you may find helpful. They are written for a New Jersey audience (where I practice) but the ideas discussed in these articles usually apply in most other jurisdictions as well.
Click here for an article that discusses the three main questions I ask when deciding whether to investigate a potential medical malpractice case.
Click here for an article that explains what you can expect when filing a medical malpractice case.
Click here and here for more information about me.
Please note that by attempting to answer your question, I am not acting as your attorney. I will do nothing further to protect or preserve your interests in the absence of any additional discussion with you about this matter. John Ratkowitz, Esq. Starr, Gern, Davison & Rubin, P.C. 105 Eisenhower Parkway Roseland, NJ 07068 Office: (973) 830-8441 Cell: (732) 616-6278 Fax: (973) 226-0031 Email: jratkowitz@starrgern.com Skype: john_ratkowitz Web: www.starrgern.com.
Answered on Feb 18th, 2013 at 7:11 PM