Orange County Medical Malpractice Attorneys

What is Medical Malpractice? Not every unfavorable outcome is the result of malpractice. Medical malpractice is the failure of a doctor or other health care provider to render the quality of care and treatment ordinarily given by health care providers in the same specialty. Substandard medical care is also called negligence or carelessness. Health care providers are responsible to pay for injuries resulting from their negligence or carelessness even though they did not intend to cause injury or, perhaps, did the best that they could. Patients are often injured by good doctors or nurses who are overworked, tired, or who are unfamiliar with the patient's particular illness. Other injuries occur when health care providers are inattentive or distracted. Sometimes health care practitioners are incompetent or sloppy. Regardless of the reason, if you are injured because of substandard medical care, you are entitled to be fairly and fully compensated. Whether a health care provider is negligent is usually established by the testimony of another health care professional practicing in the same specialty. The job of a medical malpractice attorney is to obtain fair compensation for injured patients, get injured patients the services of highly rated medical experts, objectively investigate and evaluate patient injuries,and provide patients with information about common medical mistakes, resulting injuries and how to obtain fair compensation.  

A medical malpractice action for injury or death must be brought within one year from the date the claimant discovered the negligent act, but no more than three years from the date of injury. For retained foreign body cases, the statute is tolled until the claimant discovers or should have discovered the injury. You must contact a medical malpractice attorney as soon as the injury has been discovered.