Hospital emergency departments have become a necessary resource for millions of people in the United States, providing both emergency and non-emergency medical care.  Hospital emergency departments have been steadily increasing in volumes of patients to the point of becoming overcrowded and chaotic environments.  For anyone that may have visited a hospital emergency room decades ago and within 15 minutes was able to see the doctor, times have changed.  These same people visiting a hospital emergency room today may be in shock as they witness a completely filled room full of people and are forced to wait many hours just to see a nurse or doctor.

Overcrowded emergency departments create a breeding ground for medical malpractice incidents.  The reasons are simple.  When patients are kept waiting for many hours to be seen by a doctor, some patients with emergency medical conditions may be overlooked and their conditions may escalate to something far more severe.  Some patients will be misdiagnosed with another medical condition or a failure to diagnose any medical problem at all will occur.  This is because doctors and nurses will be forced to rush through patients much more quickly in order to meet the large volume.  Doctors and nurses will also be more mentally and physically exhausted trying to keep up with the patient overload, will likely be more stressed and disconnected from the patient’s themselves.  See the article “More than 4 out of 10 U.S. Doctors are Dealing with Burnout.”  The frantic pace doctors and nurses are forced to work with will also cause an increase in medication errors.  If surgery is required, surgeon’s may be in short supply forcing people who need emergency surgery to be kept waiting while their condition worsens, and this also causes medical staff to have to work longer hours which increases more mistakes as they are more tired.

Dr. Bruce Fagel understands exactly how emergency departments function and understands medical malpractice first-hand.  Not only is Dr. Fagel a leading medical malpractice attorney, practicing medical malpractice law for 30 years, he is also a licensed medical doctor and spent 10 years as an emergency room physician.  Dr. Fagel has seen first-hand medical malpractice occurring in the emergency rooms at hospitals and understands how medical malpractice can be covered up or how the blame for the negligence can be shifted to a patient’s age or pre-existing condition.  Dr. Fagel has also successfully handled many medical malpractice cases against hospitals involving ER malpractice.

When dealing with medical malpractice claims, it’s important for people to understand that medical malpractice lawsuits are extremely complicated and expensive to handle.  Attorneys representing hospitals and doctors invest a large amount of money and resources defending their clients; therefore, it is critical that a patient injured by medical malpractice retains the services of a lawyer who understands how to take on these powerful attorneys and has the resources and experience necessary to win.  The Law Offices of Dr. Bruce G. Fagel & Associates only handles medical malpractice cases, so this allows them to focus 100% of their resources in one area and one area only, medical malpractice.

If you or a family member was the victim of doctor malpractice or hospital malpractice in an emergency room or hospital, contact the Law Offices of Dr. Bruce G. Fagel & Associates right away for a free consultation at (800) 541-9376.

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