Emergency rooms are the place where you turn when you have a serious medical issue. You count on ER doctors and nurses to diagnose you properly, stabilize your condition, and provide the treatment you need to limit serious and potentially lifelong or life-threatening complications.
Unfortunately, sometimes ER doctors misdiagnose patients, which can lead to the progression of your condition or receiving the wrong type of treatment. When this happens to you, you could experience both physical and financial harm.
Gill Ports Hoste LLC can help. Our firm has spent decades fighting for the victims of medical negligence, and we have extensive experience forcing hospitals and ER doctors to take responsibility for their mistakes and provide you with the compensation you deserve.
To find out more about how our lawyers for emergency room errors in Chicago can fight for you, give us a call or contact us online today to schedule your free consultation. You can also read on to learn about what to do after an ER misdiagnosis.
Get expert medical advice on how your misdiagnosis happened
When you have been misdiagnosed, you need to get the correct diagnosis so you can begin to receive the right treatment.
You also need to find out how the ER doctor failed you. If the ER doctor fell short of the professional standard of care, they can be liable for your losses — but often this hinges on highly technical questions about whether the doctor’s care was reasonable.
If you want to pursue a malpractice claim, you’re going to need medical experts to document where the ER doctor went wrong and why a reasonably competent physician with emergency room experience and training should not have made that error if they were not negligent.
An ER misdiagnosis lawyer at Gill Ports Hoste LLC can help you find the right medical experts who can determine what went wrong with your care and whether you can pursue a claim to get compensation from those responsible.
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Document the consequences of the misdiagnosis
It’s also important to prove that you specifically suffered harm because of your doctor’s failures, rather than the underlying condition that sent you to the emergency room in the first place.
You should keep careful records of any treatment you receive because of your misdiagnosis, and make sure that care providers document how delayed treatment or incorrect treatment resulted in you being harmed.
If you can prove that any competent ER doctor would have correctly diagnosed you and that the ER doctor’s failures caused you more serious harm than you’d have otherwise suffered, you should be entitled to damages.
Find the right ER misdiagnosis lawyer in Chicago to help you
ER misdiagnosis claims can be complicated because malpractice insurers often try to pay as little as possible, and medical professionals frequently argue that your underlying condition was the cause of your harm.
You need a medical misdiagnosis attorney in Chicago who is prepared and ready to fight for you, which means you need to find a lawyer who offers:
- A history of success in malpractice claims. Gill Ports Hoste LLC has been representing victims for more than 100 years, and we have recovered over $500 million for clients, including $30 million in a recent malpractice case.
- Negotiating skills and trial experience. We’ve stood up to the biggest insurers in Chicago, and we have also stood up in hundreds of courtrooms, presenting compelling evidence and making strong claims. We are members of the American Board of Trial Advocates, and our demonstrated litigation experience ensures that your case is in the right hands.
- A strong commitment to every client. We treat every case as our most important case because we understand how important your claim is in helping you build a secure future.
Schedule your free consultation with an Attorney at Gill Ports Hoste LLC
Gill Ports Hoste LLC has represented many clients who were misdiagnosed by medical professionals, and we know how to identify defendants and build strong medical malpractice cases in Chicago. Give us a call today or contact us online to schedule a free consultation with an ER misdiagnosis lawyer in Chicago to find out how we can fight for you.