Maryland Nurse Malpractice Attorneys
If you have been seriously injured due to the negligence of a nurse, please contact a Maryland nursing negligence attorney at our law office today. Our attorneys have vast experience in many medical malpractice and personal injury law areas, including nursing negligence. Call the Law Offices of Steven H. Heisler today to speak to one of our experienced Maryland nursing malpractice lawyers.
Doctors, nurses and other health care providers spend a great deal of time learning how to treat a variety of illnesses and physical maladies. As a group they are professionals dedicated to helping alleviate the ailments that can plague mankind. Unfortunately, nurses can also make mistakes. When mistakes are made the effects can be devastating. In fact, according to the National Academy of Sciences, approximately 98,000 Americans die from "medical mistakes" each year.
If someone is injured as a result of a nurse's digression from the standard of care, that treater may be liable for the injury that has occurred. The determination of whether a nurse has met the standard of care is based on a comparison to other professionals in the same field and the same geographical region. In other words, what would a reasonably competent nurse practicing in the same field as the defendant, and in the same area of the defendant, do under the circumstances that the defendant was facing with respect to care and treatment of the patient?
Baltimore nursing malpractice does not occur every time there is a bad outcome from treatment. It is simply a duty to provide good care according to the accepted standards of the community and/or the accepted standards of a particular medical specialty. The law generally recognizes the practice of medicine as an "art" rather than as an exact science. Therefore, some latitude is given to practitioners with respect to the manner in which they choose to address the problems of specific patients.
If you have been physically harmed, mistreated or suffered a personal injustice by a nurse, the Baltimore nurse malpractice attorneys at our office can help protect your rights and help you recover monetary compensation for medical bills, loss of work, pain, suffering, and other nursing negligence related expenses. Our Baltimore negligent nurse law firm has a reputation for favorable verdicts and settlements for our clients as the result of our case outcomes and the monetary compensation that we have recovered for our seriously injured clients.
Contact a Maryland Nursing Negligence attorney at the Law Offices of Steven H. Heisler today to discuss your Maryland nursing negligence or malpractice case.