When you go to a hospital, clinic or emergency room, you depend on trained medical professionals to properly diagnose your condition and provide you with the treatment you need. When a doctor, nurse or other medical practitioner misdiagnoses or fails to diagnose a medical condition, administers wrong medication or makes a surgical mistake, the result can be irreversible, even fatal damage, to your health.

Whether your injury w­­as caused by an understaffed emergency room, a poorly trained doctor or an overworked nurse, you may be looking at a lengthy recovery process and significant medical bills that go well beyond what you expected to pay when you arrived at the medica­­l facility.

Doctors need to be held responsible for violating professional standards. Our attorneys are aggressive medical malpractice lawyers who will fight for you and make sure you get the justice you deserve. We years of experience negotiating with insurance companies and litigating cases inNew Jersey, including Cranford, Kenilworth and Woodbridge.

Depending on the nature of the hospital error or mistake, medical malpractice can result in catastrophic injuries or even death. Some of the most common types of medical malpractice in New Jersey and New York include:

• Misdiagnosis: Doctors need to be able to recognize the warning signs of life-threatening conditions like cancer, strokes and heart attacks. When a condition is misdiagnosed, or diagnosis is delayed, a preventable injury can turn into a tragedy.
• Failure to diagnose: Doctors must be properly trained to recognize the symptoms of dangerous illnesses and diseases like cancer because a delayed or lack of diagnosis can be potentially fatal.
• Diagnostic imaging mistakes: If the radiologist fails to diagnose a condition or misdiagnoses a problem on an x-ray, CAT scan, MRI, or any other diagnostic test, the patient will have delayed or no treatment. An example might be failing to identify pneumonia on a chest x-ray.