Moultrie Georgia Personal Injury Law Blog

If you think that your family will never be touched by the horrors of medical malpractice, we urge you to think again and to be cautious. Most victims of medical malpractice, especially those suffering serious or catastrophic injuries, thought the same thing when they went to a medical facility for help.

In truth, it is not always possible to identify health care providers that might be negligent. In this modern world, many factors can turn a minor medical procedure into a nightmare of preventable health care injuries. Doctors, nurses and surgeons in the 21st century are busy managing multiple patients, making rounds, reviewing test results and performing a multitude of other tasks. Such chaos comes with the risk of making errors that lead to severe harm. Common mistakes that might occur because of negligence on a medical provider's part include:

• Operating on the wrong part of the body
• Causing infections through insufficient sanitary procedures
• Serious medication errors
• Operating on the wrong patient
• Leaving foreign objects in the body

Countless people pass away due to preventable accidents and injuries each year in Georgia and other states. Many of these fatalities occur because of unintentional negligence. This means that even though the person who caused the death behaved negligently, he or she did not intend to harm another person.

Other times, death occurs because the responsible party engaged in intentionally reckless or malicious conduct. Talking with an attorney can help surviving family members determine if they have grounds to impose punitive damages against the party responsible for their loved one's death.

It is no longer uncommon to encounter semis carrying two or even three trailers on Georgia roads. Because truck accidents occur far too often, residents often fear semis carrying only one trailer. When they see a truck with two or more trailers attached, that fear skyrockets to the point where it can affect how a motorist drives near these enormous trucks.

Knowing the training that truckers undergo may help ordinary drivers feel more secure when they encounter vehicles with a combination of different trailers. You should know that the following truck driver training information might not apply to all large and heavy operators. As you might expect, an untrained operator pulling two or more trailers runs the risk of seriously injuring victims if a truck accident does occur.

You went to your doctor to address a concern over your health. Several tests and visits later, you learned you needed surgery to fix the problem. You went to the recommended surgeon, scheduled the surgery at your local Georgia hospital and went in for the procedure. When you woke up, something wasn't right. Your surgeon made a mistake, and now you are the victim of a WSP surgical error.

What is a WSP surgical error? WSP is short for wrong-site, wrong-patient, wrong-procedure surgical errors. While these errors may not happen all too often, they do happen, and the physical, emotional and financial consequences can be devastating to the victims.