Charleston Wrong Site Surgery Lawyers

Doctors and other medical professionals spend a great deal of time, money, and energy attempting to master the seemingly endless complexities of the human body. They are trained to diagnose illnesses or diseases based upon the skilled interpretation of a patient’s symptoms and laboratory test results.

Surgeons are entrusted with the authority and responsibility to cut and repair the most severe injuries and ailments, yet they fail to carry out one essential aspect of surgery with an alarming frequency. Thousands of surgical procedures are performed on the wrong site each year in the United States, despite the apparent simplicity of preventing these negligent acts.

If a surgery was performed on your wrong body part, or if you were not the intended patient for a procedure, contact the Charleston wrong site surgery lawyers of the Steinberg Law Firm at 843-720-2800.

What is a Wrong Site Surgery?

You, the patient, are intimately familiar with the pain that has been nagging you. Maybe it’s an injured right knee that daily reminds you of a sports injury. Unfortunately, in the contemporary American medical system, your injury exists to your surgeon and his team only on paperwork, x-rays, and other lab results. There are numerous shortcomings in the management of patient safety in regard to these procedures, complicated by time constraints, fatigue, and overly busy surgeons. Wrong site surgery occurs when a procedure is:

• On the wrong side of the body (i.e., the left hand, when it is the right that requires the surgery)
• In the wrong part of the correct anatomical structure (especially within the knee or other complicated organs or features)
• The incorrect procedure (such as the removal of a kidney instead of a surgical repair)
• Performed on the wrong patient (an unbelievably negligent act)

Contact Us

For all of the excuses that hospitals and their lawyers may offer, there simply is no justification for a wrong site surgery. Contact the Charleston wrong site surgery lawyers of the Steinberg Law Firm at 843-720-2800. You can trust us to act more responsibly than they did.