What Are the Biggest Challenges You Face in Handling Medical Malpractice Cases?

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there are a lot of challenges in medical
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malpractice cases the most difficult is
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frequently proving what they call
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causation in a medical malpractice clam
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you have to prove a lot more than just
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the hospital or doctor or nurse did
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something wrong doing something wrong is
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not enough to succeed in a lawsuit you
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have to prove that what they did wrong
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was the cause of your injury or even
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more importantly that the injury
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wouldn’t have occurred if the negligence
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hadn’t occurred so that involves a
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little bit of looking into a crystal
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ball and you have to prove that
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information through expert testimony you
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have to bring in experts in the right
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Fields whether they be neurology
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Rehabilitation uh emergency medicine in
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order to say that uh had this infection
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been diagnosed earlier you’re going to
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need an infectious disease expert to say
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that in virtually all cases the
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antibiotic would have treated the
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infection and the complication wouldn’t
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have occurred in an emergency medicine
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Cardiology case where a patient goes
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into the ER uh with complaints of chest
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pain you need testimony to show that had
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the intervention been done earlier had
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the aspirin been given had EKG been done
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that the diagnosis would have been made
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and that the treatment would have made a
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difference and it’s that part that
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causation that proving that the outcome
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would have changed that’s most difficult
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in a medical m practice cas