subject: Nh Medical Malpractice [print this page] According to the National Practitioner Data Bank 728 medical malpractice payment reports were made against doctors in New Hampshire, 38 NH medical malpractice payment reports were made against nurses in the same year. While this is certainly not a lot of claims, it can still be viewed, as too many claims because doctors and other medical professionals are supposed to determine what is wrong and fix it, not make mistakes.
Doctors are required to go to school for years to learn how to treat patients, we expect them to be able to treat us without making any obvious mistakes. Malpractice is a specific legal term that is related to any lawsuits brought against professionals in the medical profession for any damage to a patient. NH medical malpractice can cover misdiagnosis, mistreatment, delayed diagnosis, failure to diagnose, surgical errors, medical errors, or types of negligence. The important thing to remember is that not everything that goes wrong in medical diagnosis and treatment can be considered malpractice because the medical profession is not risk free, symptoms can present the same way in a variety of conditions, which makes it hard to diagnose sometimes.
If you are considering seeking, the advice of a lawyer for medical malpractice in NH the one thing that you need to be aware of is that issues of NH medical malpractice are not immediately relevant. Before a medical malpractice case can be brought against somebody in the medical profession, the patient must have suffered some damages that are directly related to the actions of the defendant. For example, going to the doctors and being diagnosed with thyroid disease based on your symptoms and then getting a new symptom about three weeks later is not medical malpractice. Going to the doctors and them failing to diagnose lung cancer can be the cause of medical malpractice because with the disease being left undiagnosed it can cause disability or even death.
With NH medical malpractice awards, there are five top diseases in terms of dollar value. The top five diseases that are associated with NH medical malpractice suits are breast cancer, lung cancer, colorectal cancer, heart attack, and appendicitis. The main medical malpractice allegation in all of these diseases is usually delayed diagnosis or a mistake during the diagnostic testing. These conditions are often are associated with large monetary awards because of how severe a misdiagnosis can be in these diseases, if it is not properly diagnosed the patient can die or become severely disabled.
