Additional Information on Medical Negligence, South Carolina Attorneys
Patients have the right to expect safe and adequate care when seeking medical treatment. To successfully pursue a medical malpractice case, your attorney must be able to prove that the health care provider’s medical treatment fell below the accepted standard of care which means the medical provider failed to follow the safety rules in place to prevent the injury or death. Accountability is the key to maintaining the integrity of our great healthcare system. Furr, Henshaw & Ohanesian is committed to ensuring that errant healthcare providers who jeopardize the level of care citizens receive are held responsible for their actions by upholding those professional standards.
The standard of care set by the medical community is the minimum degree of care to which all patients in the United States are entitled to expect. However, the non-partisan National Institute of Medicine has published studies showing that as many as 44,000 to 98,000 patients die each year to due to PREVENTABLE medical errors and as many as 1,000,000 more are seriously injured with the consequences of those injuries costing up to $29 billion annually in public disability and care costs. This alarming fact of the number of patients killed is the equivalent of two passenger jets filled to capacity crashing every day for 365 consecutive days.
Medical negligence cases involve negligence on the part of a medical provider in which a person has suffered significant and serious injury or death as a result. Examples of medical malpractice can include misdiagnosis, improper treatment, failure to treat, delay in treatment, failure to perform appropriate follow-up, prescription errors and surgical errors.
Furr, Henshaw & Ohanesian has been helping grievously injured patients or their surviving family member for more than 40 years. Furr, Henshaw & Ohanesian thoroughly investigate and carefully screen all cases for merit before filing a lawsuit. We only accept meritorious cases. Sometimes the meritorious case can be answered almost immediately. In other instances, the law firm needs additional time, effort, and investigation to establish whether the case is meritorious. O. Fayrell Furr is Board Certified by the American Board of Professional Liability Attorneys, the only specialty board sanctioned by the American Bar Association. Furr, Henshaw & Ohanesian has represented patients and families who have been the victims of medical negligence ranging from labor and delivery trauma; medication errors; misdiagnoses or failures to diagnosis and multitudes of other surgical errors.
Medical Malpractice laws are designed to protect patients' rights to pursue compensation if they are injured as the result of negligence. However, malpractice suits are often complex and costly to win. While theoretically, you can seek compensation for any injury caused by negligence, regardless of its seriousness, time and money make it unrealistic to sue for an injury that is minor or heals quickly. At Furr, Henshaw & Ohanesian, we limit the number of cases we handle each year so that every person we serve receives the full benefit of our resources. Our experience in handling these cases and the results we obtain against the powerful medical industry is why other lawyers refer their clients to Furr, Henshaw & Ohanesian and why former clients refer their friends and family members to us when a medical tragedy occurs.
Furr, Henshaw & Ohanesian serves victims suffering from medical negligence and other personal injuries, whose claims require significant courtroom experience. If you believe that you or a loved one has received inadequate or negligent medical care, contact Furr, Henshaw & Ohanesian.
Be an informed patient. Protect yourself and your family from medical negligence.
