Hospitals are frequently found responsible for the negligent actions of their employees. Many such cases involve radiology, nursing errors and pharmaceutical errors. Hospitals are found to be responsible for their employees’ actions under the doctrine of respondeat superior. Hospitals can also be negligent for their own actions in failing to have adequate policies and procedures in place to ensure that quality care is provided to our loved ones.
Hospitals also have a duty to ensure the physicians who are privileged to work in their facilities are qualified to practice medicine. As such, the privileging and credentialing process is another area where hospitals can deviate from acceptable standards of care. Our Dallas medical malpractice law firm has handled numerous hospital cases including:
- Prescription Errors – Inadequate TPN, resulting in permanent brain damage.
- Failing to Timely Administer Medications – Failure to timely administer thrombolytics.
- Failing to Follow Policies to Ensure that Records are Timely Delivered to Appropriate Individuals – Failure to make a patient’s prior chart available to a physician, following discharge, and readmission.
- Radiologic Errors – Failure to properly interpret films, including cancer during a routine mammogram.
- Failing to Properly Maintain Pathology Samples – Samples sent offsite for interpretation. Cancer found but not reported to ordering physicians, or patients, leading to death.
- Failing to Timely Transmit Pathology Reports – Resulting in the failure to diagnose cancer, causing death.
- Nursing Errors – Errors in the administration of medication, leading to severe complications.
- Failing to Timely Transmit Pathology Reports – Resulting in the failure to diagnose cancer, causing death.
- Dietician Errors – Improper diet, failure to include vitamins in TPN, leading to Wernicke Encephalopathy, and permanent brain damage.
- Credentialing Errors – Allowing a physician to practice without proper and thorough credentialing.
- Retained Sponge – Failure to perform proper sponge count, leading to complications and requiring second surgery to remove.
Contact Our Dallas Hospital Negligence Malpractice Lawyer Today For Consultation
If you believe you or a loved one may have been the victim of hospital negligence, please call 1-888-MED-MALS or fill out our case review contact form on this page.