Medical Malpractice Explained

When you or a loved one has been harmed by medical negligence in Georgia, timing is critical. Georgia law sets strict deadlines for filing a medical malpractice lawsuit, and missing them can mean losing your right to compensation. Below, we…

If you've ever sat in a waiting room and been handed a tablet to fill out a few forms before your appointment, you've probably done what almost everyone does. You tapped through screen after screen, initialed a box, checked another,…

A few weeks ago, we wrote about a 75-year-old cancer patient who signed an arbitration clause on an intake tablet during a routine medical appointment. We litigated that clause. We lost. That article ended by pointing to something we find…

Two excellent law firms had already turned it down. The statute of limitations was days away. We saw something in the medical records that made us take another look. A few weeks ago, another attorney called us about a potential…

You watched your husband's legs weaken over two days on a post-surgical floor, told the nurses each time, and the response was pain medication and reassurance that this was normal recovery from his lumbar decompression. By the third morning he…

A 23-year-old expectant mother died less than two weeks before her due date from a heart condition her prenatal chart never worked up. She had received care at a Metro Atlanta OB practice staffed by physicians and certified nurse midwives…

A Navy veteran in his late sixties was admitted to the Joseph Maxwell Cleland Atlanta VA Medical Center for abdominal pain and scheduled for an elective upper endoscopy the next morning. His pre-procedure note read like a warning label: obstructive…

Most parents remember the visit the same way. The exam that felt too quick. The discharge conversation with a reassuring label attached, usually "viral" or "ear infection" or "gastroenteritis," and a printed handout. The drive home, when something already felt…

A knee dislocation can slip back into place before anyone photographs it. On a Saturday afternoon in late May 2017, a man in Douglas County fell on his right side and arrived at the emergency department of a community hospital…

The call usually comes on a Tuesday, three weeks in, after the discharge summary stopped making sense and someone at the nursing station finally said the words out loud. By then a legal record has been forming for twenty-one days,…

The chart often tells you what went wrong within an hour of reading it. Someone you loved walked into a Georgia emergency room short of breath, or with chest pain, or with a racing heart that would not settle. A…