Orlando Medical Malpractice Lawyer Blog

When people have a medical emergency they usually call 911 and are transported to an Orlando emergency department. As Orlando medical malpractice lawyers, we know that Orlando Regional Medical Center and Florida Hospital Orlando receive thousands of patients through their emergency departments each year. These Orlando hospitals have a responsibility to provide timely and appropriate medical care.

Hospital emergency departments must be adequately staffed and capable of handling all types of medical emergencies. Whether it is 1:00 in the afternoon or 1:00 in the morning if a hospital agrees or advertises to take emergencies such as heart attacks or stroke, it must be able to provide timely intervention and medical care. Otherwise, patients should be taken to other healthcare facilities.

Unfortunately, patients taken to local hospital emergency departments do not always receive timely intervention. This may occur because the doctors or hospital staff fail to properly take a medical history from the patient or the patient's family. A medical history is the information surrounding the circumstances which caused the patient to go to the hospital. While this information is critical to a proper diagnosis, we have found that hospitals and doctors fail to take the time to obtain a complete and accurate medical history. Sadly, the failure to ask simply questions has led to unnecessary injury and death.

Medical malpractice involving the failure to prevent or treat MRSA infections may be on the rise. MRSA stands for Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. MRSA is caused by Staphylococcus aureus bacteria — often called "staph." It's a strain of staph that is resistant to the broad-spectrum antibiotics commonly used to treat it. As Orlando medical malpractice lawyers, we have seen too many cases of MRSA which should have been avoided or which were not properly treated. Indeed, MRSA medical malpractice has led to the death of innocent individuals.

The terrible effects of medical malpractice involving MRSA infections also include patients who lose all of their limbs. My partner, Dr. Walter Ward, a medical doctor and lawyer, has spent significant time educating our clients on the correct method of avoiding MRSA, and when it is diagnosed-the proper method to treat it. Obviously, hospitals and doctors must do all that they can to protect their patients from this serious risk of harm.

Most MRSA infections occur in hospitals or other health care settings, such as nursing homes and dialysis centers. It's known as health care-associated MRSA, or HA-MRSA. Older adults and people with weakened immune systems are at most risk of HA-MRSA. More recently, another type of MRSA has occurred among otherwise healthy people in the wider community. This form, community-associated MRSA, or CA-MRSA, is responsible for serious skin and soft tissue infections and for a serious form of pneumonia.

Florida Hospital, owned by the Adventist Healthcare System and Orlando Regional Healthcare Systems have committed medical malpractice and inflicted injury on members of our community. As Orlando medical malpractice lawyers, we fight to hold careless healthcare providers responsible for the injury and death they cause. Over the past twenty years, we have aggressively fought deceitful tactics in medical malpractice lawsuits.

Few people hear about the tactics and healthcare retaliation of the medical industry and local hospitals. The website, HealthcareRetaliation.Com provides a horrifying illustration of a broken healthcare system. Based on an actual case tried in Orlando, Florida, this website takes the viewer through one of the most egregious examples of deceit, retaliation and corporations trying to protect their profits and “business as usual.”

From our work, we learned that the healthcare providers involved are not interested in the truth; but, will instead do all that they can to avoid responsibility for injury and death to patients. These healthcare providers aggressively seek to blame the patient and hide evidence of wrongdoing.

Anyone who has suffered injury or retaliation at the hands of healthcare providers needs attorneys who know how to fight back. To better understand what you are up against, we have written a book, Seeking Justice: An Insider’s Guide for the Injured. It details the steps in a medical malpractice claim and the many defenses that Florida Hospital and Orlando Regional Healthcare Systems employs. Order your free copy now.

Healthcare provider fraud, deceit and retaliation must be fought at all costs. Patients and innocent employees of healthcare providers deserve such efforts. We will continue to expose healthcare wrongdoing and fight to bring the truth to light.