Toledo, Ohio Medical Malpractice and Nursing Home Abuse Attorneys
Gary Osborne & Associates
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2754 Centennial Road Toledo, Ohio 43617 USA |
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(419) 842-8200
or (800) 865-0507
www.garyosbornelaw.com
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The Law Offices of Gary Osborne & Associates is a well-established Toledo, Ohio medical malpractice law firm dedicated to obtaining justice for victims of negligence in the healthcare system. Preventable medical errors by doctors, hospitals and nursing homes are a leading cause of death in the United States. Victims of such medical errors are entitled compensation for any injuries, illnesses or death that results.
To enhance our law firm's ability to evaluate potential medical malpractice cases, we seek out the best available medical experts from throughout the country to review the facts and determine whether there is a basis for compensation. We only proceed after receiving opinions from highly qualified experts that a hospital, nurse or doctor was negligent, and that serious injury has resulted.
Gary Osborne & Associates has a proven record of success in handling medical malpractice and nursing home cases in Northwest Ohio and throughout Ohio. Lead attorney Gary Osborne is honored to be included in the 2008 edition of the publication The Best Lawyers in America. We have the financial and medical resources to provide you with the quality legal representation that your case requires to gain the compensation you deserve.
Practice Areas
Additional Practice Areas: Cerebral Palsy Litigation; Erb's Palsy Litigation; Forceps/Vacuum Injury; Hospital Negligence; Anesthesia Malpractice; Emergency Room Errors; Delayed Treatment; Failure to Diagnose Cancer; Blood Clots/Pulmonary Embolism; Medical Malpractice Involving Children
Practice Areas Description
- Birth InjuriesIf your child suffered an injury in the delivery room, it is critical to evaluate whether preventable errors occurred in the management of the pregnancy or birth. It is always better to evaluate these cases as soon as possible. However, a child injured through medical malpractice may have until his or her 19th birthday to bring a lawsuit, so do not assume that you have waited too long.
- Brain Injuries
Brain injury may be caused by medical errors. Patients in hospitals suffer brain damage because of ischemia or hypoxic injury (lack of oxygen to the brain) resulting from anesthesia errors and other medical mistakes.
- Wrongful Death
The shock and sorrow of family members who have lost loved ones due to fatal surgical errors or misdiagnosis of cancer is made worse by accompanying financial losses.
- Spinal Cord Injuries
Spinal injury victims are likely to suffer irreparable, serious disabilities including partial or total paralysis. Medical expenses as well as life-care costs for a paralyzed person are often astronomical and overwhelming. A newly-quadriplegic or paraplegic victim and his or her family are in dire need of just compensation when medical negligence was the cause of the spinal cord injury.
- Emergency Room Errors
The accepted standard of care in emergency room medicine includes the responsibility that the facility has to identify life-threatening illnesses and injuries, and then to take appropriate action. When emergency room doctors and nurses fail to promptly and properly assess a patient, they may be liable for the consequences of their negligence. This often comes into play in cases of untreated heart attack or stroke symptoms.
- Anesthesia Malpractice
Anesthesia errors may include any of the following:
* Intubation errors before or during surgery or in the post-operative recovery room
* Administration of the wrong anesthesia drug for a particular patient
* Dosage errors in anesthesia
* Allowing a patient's blood pressure to go too high or too low while under anesthesia
* Failure to monitor vital signs such as the heart rate of a patient under anesthesia
- Surgery Malpractice
If you or a loved one has suffered injury or loss of life because of a surgical error, you may be eligible to seek compensation for past and future medical expenses, lost wages, disability, and pain and suffering.
- Hospital Negligence
Examples of hospital negligence include the following:
* Failure to monitor patients adequately (nurse malpractice)
* Failure of doctors and nursing staff to keep each other informed of vital information crucial to a patient's well-being
* Failure of personnel such as X-ray technicians and respiratory therapists to treat patients according to the accepted standard of care
* Medication errors
* Failure to respond to alarms that are intended to alert hospital personnel when a patient's vital signs are taking a turn for the worse
* Understaffing of nursing staff
* Hiring of unqualified or uncertified medical personnel
* Lack of infection control procedures
- Misdiagnosis
The consequences of careless misdiagnosis of a serious illness can be devastating, since time is often of the essence when treating diseases. Breast cancer that is caught in its early stages can often be successfully treated through radiation, chemotherapy, and/or surgical removal of tumors. On the other hand, breast cancer that goes undetected may metastasize and become life-threatening.
- Cancer
Did your doctor miss the opportunity to diagnose and treat your cancer in time to give you the best possible chance at a cancer-free future? Should he or she not be held accountable for the devastating results of that mistake?
- Pulmonary Embolism
Part of the preparation for surgery should be a careful evaluation of high-risk factors including a history of smoking or oral contraceptive use. Surgeons typically seek to determine before surgery whether patients are at a significant risk of pulmonary embolism or blood clots - and if so, to take appropriate preventive measures. After surgery, it may be advisable for high-risk patients to wear pressure stockings or inflatable decompression boots. Blood thinners may delay the coagulation process, thereby reducing the risk of blood clotting.
- Heart Attacks
Did a loved one suffer from an unexplained heart attack? Were symptoms of the heart attack ignored? Too many times, risk factors and symptoms of heart attacks are missed, resulting in a heart attack that potentially could have been prevented or damage to the heart muscle which could have been minimized by prompt treatment.
- Stroke
A stroke can result in debilitating injuries or even death. When the symptoms leading to the stroke could have been treated, it is an unfortunate tragedy. Our thorough investigations can reveal mistakes made by treating physicians, emergency room staff, and other medical professionals.
- Infections
When not properly treated, a simple infection can worsen and become life threatening. Nursing home residents suffer from bed sores; surgical patients receive inadequate follow up care; undiagnosed sinus problems can become so serious they cause brain damage. These types of negligence should be accounted for.
- Medication Errors / Prescription Errors
Medication errors can have devastating effects, including brain damage, nerve damage, kidney damage, or liver damage. If you believe that you or a family member was seriously injured, or if a loved one died, as a result of receiving the wrong prescription or an overdose in Ohio, we may be able to help.
- Nursing Home Abuse
Injured nursing home residents or their family members often come to us to hold negligent facilities accountable and help ensure that future nursing home residents will not suffer a similar fate.
- Nursing Home Deaths
People who enter nursing homes do so with the expectation that their health and well-being will be protected by their caregivers. Elderly or not, disabled or not, residents of a nursing home or an assisted living facility deserve the same kind of high-quality care that we all want for our own parents and grandparents.
Attorneys
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Mr. Gary W. Osborne
Principal Attorney Medical Malpractice, Nursing Home Abuse |
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