Emergency Room Errors

Seeking emergency care should be a time of hope, not despair. Yet, errors and negligence in the emergency room continue to injure innocent victims. When you or a loved one goes to the emergency room, you should expect a certain standard of care. This term describes how a careful healthcare worker should act under certain conditions. It is very important in medical malpractice cases, including emergency room errors.

In emergency rooms, this standard means making the right diagnosis quickly, sorting patients correctly based on who needs help the most, giving the right medicines and doing the needed tests. If the staff doesn’t do these things because they are too busy or stressed, it can cause harm to patients and provide the basis for a lawsuit seeking accountability and compensation for the errors. If you have been harmed by emergency room errors, it is important to consult an attorney as soon as possible since the general rule for medical malpractice cases is that the lawsuit must be filed within two years of the date of the malpractice occurred.

At Langer & Langer, we stand for patients injured through medical errors and negligence. Our compassionate Indiana medical malpractice lawyers help the injured hold providers accountable for their mistakes.