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Medical Malpractice Your Injury, Our Fight

Arlington, TX Medical Malpractice Lawyer

Going to the doctor should be a pleasant experience where you get diagnosed as quickly and accurately as possible. That way, you can be confident that you’re getting the treatment that you need so that you can heal. When a doctor or another medical professional makes a mistake that leads to you suffering more harm, that could greatly impact your health. Our Arlington, TX medical malpractice lawyer is here to represent you and ensure they are held responsible for their mistakes.

You shouldn’t have to go through all of this alone. We’re here to guide you through the med mal process so that you can get justice for what you’ve endured. Our experienced attorneys will investigate what happened, how your healthcare worker was negligent, how they harmed you, and calculate the damages that you suffered as a result.

Call us at (505) 388-0066 or fill out the form below to tell us about your potential case and a personal injury lawyer will get back to you as quickly as possible.

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Our Results Make a Difference

Explore How We Have Helped Our Clients
  • $73.21 Million Verdict Birth Injury

    The Buckingham & Vega legal team secured a $73.21 million verdict on behalf of a baby who was catastrophically injured due to the negligence of their doctor and medical team.

  • Record-Setting $72 Million Verdict Birth Injury

    The Buckingham & Vega team obtained a $72 Million verdict in a birth injury case when an OB/ GYN failed to properly monitor the mom during pregnancy.

  • $12 Million Birth Injury

    The attorneys at Buckingham & Vega obtained a $12 million birth injury settlement.

  • $2.5 Million Surgical Negligence

    Our team obtained a $2.5 million verdict in a medical malpractice case that involved a gallbladder removal. The surgeon failed to identify the proper anatomy and cut the wrong duct.

  • $2 Million Hospital Negligence

    Our team obtained a $2 million settlement on behalf of a client who was catastrophically injured due to a hospital's failure to diagnose (missed diagnosis).

  • $1.75 Million Wrongful Death

    We secured $1.75 million after a wrongful death that occurred after a complication from a colonoscopy.

What Constitutes as Med Mal?

When you’re interested in filing a med mal claim, one of the first things you might be wondering is what constitutes as medical malpractice? This can seem complicated when you’re new to it, but it’s pretty simple once you break it down. In short, medical malpractice is when a medical professional breaks the duty of care and causes your injuries.

After a doctor-patient relationship is established, you are owed medical treatment that aligns with the standard of care in the field. If your doctor or other medical professional is negligent, they could break that standard and cause you injury. Those injuries will likely cause you to suffer from damages, which is when you can take legal action to recover the damages that you incurred.

This all demonstrates that medical malpractice hinges upon proving the negligence of the doctor, nurse, or other professional who hurt you. Some of the most common instances of medical negligence that could happen to you are:

  • Misdiagnosis. When you have symptoms that point to a clear diagnosis, but you are diagnosed with a completely different ailment, this can lead to your health suffering greatly and you being hurt more, or it could lead to you enduring treatments for an illness or disease that you don’t have. For example, if you are misdiagnosed with cancer and go through chemo, that can cause your body serious harm when you didn’t need to go through it at all.
  • Missed Diagnosis. Similarly, when you’re having obvious symptoms of an ailment and your doctor completely misses the diagnosis, your body can be physically harmed from that. For example, if you’re clearly suffering from a heart attack but are released from the hospital because the doctor doesn’t diagnose it, they could suffer from serious injuries or even death as a result of the missed diagnosis.
  • Medication Errors. Prescriptions and medications need to be given to patients very carefully, or else there can be serious effects on their health. When drugs are wrongly prescribed, dosed, or administered, it can have deadly consequences. If a patient has an allergy, they could have a reaction, or if they are just given the wrong medication or dosage then they could be harmed.
  • Surgical Errors. During surgery, surgeons and other medical staff who work on operations could make mistakes that lead to you suffering from more injuries. They could operate on the wrong site, nick an organ or artery from carelessness, or leave tools inside your body after the operation. Any breach of the sanitary field could lead to infections as well.
  • Birth Injuries. Birth is supposed to be a joyous process, even though it’s expected to have some pain from the experience. When you are hurt more than normal, or if you baby is harmed in any way from birth mistakes, you could have a med mal claim on your hands.

It’s important to note that merely being unsatisfied with the care you received does not constitute medical malpractice. It’s disheartening to experience care that you’re not happy with, but if you didn’t experience a breach of care, negligence, further injury, and damages as a result, then you likely don’t have a med mal claim.