Hospital Negligence

Hospitals employees, such as nurses, nurse practitioners, technicians, even radiologists or anesthesiologists, sometimes make mistakes that cause severe harm to patients. Often, these mistakes are due to understaffing, or are due to the employee's failure to properly follow the hospitals printed policies and procedures that pertain directly to patient care. When a hospital employee commits this type of negligence, the hospital is liable. Examples of such cases include:

• Failure of nursing to notify doctor of change in patient's condition
• Overmedication of patient
• Failure to properly monitor patient's vital signs
• Misread X-rays
• Pulmonary embolus cases
• Rhabdomyolysis cases (caused by improper medications)
• Nursing negligence (improper administration of medications)
• Fraudulent charting/altered records
• Failure to follow doctor's orders
• Perforated heart during CT guided liver biopsy