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If you or a family member has suffered injury as a result of medical professional’s negligence, our Pensacola medical malpractice lawyers can help you. We have a Board Certified Internal Medical Physician on staff. Which enables our firm to conduct preliminary medical malpractice reviews within 24-48 hours.
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Why You Should Hire Zarzaur Law, P.A.
Award Winning And Board Certified Civil Trial Lawyers
Some of Our Case Results
What Makes Us Different?
- Communicating with our clients in regular language.
- Explaining the process in a way that is easy to understand and keeping our clients up to date and aware of their case at all times.
- Making sure we are easily accessible to clients from the start of their case to the final day.
- Lawyers here can be contacted directly on their personal cell phones instead of going through staff members.
What is Medical Malpractice?
Medical malpractice is an area of law that holds medical professionals financially responsible for injuries to their patients caused by their negligent care. The law recognizes that not every adverse medical outcome can be avoided even by the most skilled doctor. However, the law requires all medical professionals to adhere to the standards of care required in their field of medicine.
Some situations that may give rise to a medical malpractice claim include:
- Failure to diagnose
- Failure to take necessary action
- Poor followup care
- Failure to make a referral
- Unnecessary diagnostic testing
- Failure to take a proper medical history
Although these situations can be the basis for a medical malpractice claim, the law recognizes that a patient’s treatment will vary from one health care provider to another as new treatment options become available. The law takes into consideration whether a healthcare provider acted in good faith and according to the prevailing standard of care. A victim must prove all the elements of medical malpractice to succeed in a claim. Except in certain circumstances such as where a foreign object like forceps or other surgical tools are found in a person’s body, there is no presumption that a person’s injury was caused by their health care provider. The victim has the burden of proving the cause of their injury.
What Are Some Examples Of Medical Malpractice?
Examples of medical malpractice include, but are not limited to:
- Hospital negligence
- Nursing home abuse
- Pharmacy errors
- Defective drugs & devices
- Physician negligence
- Surgical mistakes
- Misdiagnosis or failure to diagnose
- Emergency room errors
How Can I Prove Medical Malpractice?
When a person is injured or dies as a result of their health care provider’s treatment, they must prove the following to succeed in a medical malpractice claim:
That the health care provider’s actions did not meet the prevailing professional standard of care for that health care provider. A health care provider’s duty of care will be measured against what is expected of any reasonably prudent provider at the same level of care, skill, and treatment, under the similar circumstances.
That the injury the victim suffered was not within the reasonably foreseeable results of the treatment they received if it was carried out according to the prevailing professional standard of care by a similar health care provider acting with reasonable care.
Medical malpractice cases can be very complex and often require expert medical testimony to prove the health care provider’s negligence. Zarzaur Law has an on staff medical doctor that works with the firm in preparing your case.
Board Certified Civil Trial Expert
By 2006, Joe had accomplished enough to apply for Florida’s Civil Trial Board Certification. He applied and sat for the Civil Trial Certification Bar Exam and passed it. Then he received the necessary recommendations from judges and lawyers that had worked with him at trials. At 36, Joe was one of the youngest Board-Certified Civil Trial lawyers in Florida and for several years was one of the youngest in the Florida panhandle. Only about one percent of Florida lawyers are board certified and it is the only designation that Florida lawyers can utilize when comparing themselves to other lawyers.
He has obtained a 10.0 Superb rating by AVVO, an independent lawyer rating service and is a Florida “Super Lawyer.”
