Patients trust their doctors and other healthcare workers to give them sound medical advice that they can rely on. But what happens when a doctor makes a serious error that causes you or your loved one to get sicker? If you believe your illness progressed because a doctor failed to warn you or you suffered because your physician failed to warn you of the risks of a proposed medical treatment, you might have legal grounds to pursue a lawsuit. Our skilled legal team at Kaire & Heffernan, PLLC has vast experience helping people like you in Miami failure to warn medical malpractice cases. Our seasoned attorneys could fight hard on your behalf to hold the negligent healthcare worker accountable for harming you or your loved one.
Healthcare workers have a legal duty to their patients to provide them with competent care.
As part of that duty of care, all medical professionals should pursue the best medical plan of action for their patients. When a patient goes to a doctor for a routine medical examination or has a specific medical problem, their doctor should perform comprehensive evaluations in order to make proper diagnoses. If the examination shows any area of concern or the patient reports certain symptoms, a doctor should follow through with more testing or refer their patient to specialists who can better determine what could be wrong. A doctor should review all testing results and devise an effective treatment plan that best fits their patient.
All healthcare workers should abide by the duty of informed consent. Doctors and other medical providers should inform their patients about what is wrong with them and explain all their treatment options. Physicians should provide clear and easy-to-understand information about the possible benefits and risks of each treatment option, as well as any alternatives. As part of the duty of informed consent, medical professionals should keep their patients informed at every stage of the process. If a Miami doctor fails to warn their patient of a potentially serious medical condition or fails to warn them of the potential risks of a proposed treatment plan, the doctor would be in violation of their duty of informed consent, which could constitute medical malpractice.
Our experienced legal team could review the patient’s medical records and speak with medical experts to determine if the patient has a potentially viable medical malpractice claim.
Failure to warn in Miami can have dire medical consequences.
Failure to warn of a medical condition would be similar to a failure to diagnose a patient properly. When a medical provider fails to warn their patient that they could have a serious medical condition, the patient could develop further health complications. For example, if a patient has cancer, any type of delay in their treatment plan could cause the illness to spread.
Failure to warn of the risks of a proposed medical treatment can also amount to malpractice. For instance, if a doctor does not tell the patient that they could suffer internal bleeding during an operation and the patient suffers from organ failure, that could constitute malpractice because the patient did not have the proper information to consent to the treatment plan.
A compassionate local lawyer could review the effects that a failure to warn had on a patient and their family in order to help them pursue a reasonable and fair settlement from the negligent healthcare provider.
Doctors and other healthcare providers should inform their patients throughout every stage of their medical journey, from the initial diagnosis to every treatment. If your doctor failed to warn you about something related to your medical care and you suffered adverse health effects, call a local lawyer who knows how to build strong Miami failure to warn medical malpractice cases.
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