Medical Malpractice Explained

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…

Few events are more frustrating than learning that a loved one entered the hospital to get better, only to leave with a serious infection they did not have when they arrived. While many hospital-acquired infections are unavoidable despite appropriate care,…

Every surgery carries some risk of infection, and no surgeon can promise that a patient will heal without complications. But when a surgical site becomes infected, the most important question is not simply whether an infection occurred—it is whether it…

Many people are surprised to learn that Georgia law requires far more than simply filing a lawsuit if they believe they were harmed by medical negligence. In almost every medical malpractice case, the lawsuit must be accompanied by an affidavit…

You went in for a stiff neck. You walked out with something new. Maybe the headache started on the table and hasn't left. Maybe an arm feels wrong, or a leg does, or the room tilted the next morning in…

She went into surgery for a benign tumor her neurosurgeon described as routine. Her family waited in the surgical lounge for six hours, then eight. When the surgeon finally appeared, his expression said everything before his words did. She came…

When a medical error leaves someone seriously hurt, one of the first questions families ask is a completely reasonable one: how much is this case worth? The honest answer is that no one can give you a reliable number without…

A patient arrives at a Georgia emergency room with a urinary tract infection. A nurse documents an elevated heart rate and a low-grade fever. A physician orders labs and moves to the next patient. Over the next several hours, the…