About New York Emergency Room Treatment Malpractice

Information Provided by a New York Medical Malpractice Attorney

People go to the medical emergency room for a multitude of reasons such as aches, pains and injuries. Some conditions are severe, others are not. Medical emergency room doctors can see several patients with numerous symptoms and injuries in a short period of time, making emergency rooms a very stressful workplace in the healthcare profession.

Understaffed hospitals or ill-equipped emergency rooms may lead to fatal errors while dealing with patients requiring emergency treatment. An emergency room error may result when the necessary steps of treating an emergency room patient are overlooked.

The following are examples of medical malpractice that may happen in an emergency room:

• Medication Errors
• Prescription Errors
• Failure to transfer
• Omissions Error
• Failure to Diagnose
• Misdiagnosis
• Failure to admit to hospital

Walter G. Alton, Jr. is a qualified and dedicated New York medical malpractice lawyer who has experience representing patients who were victims of an emergency room malpractice. For more information on medical malpractice law and emergency room injuries, please contact the New York medical malpractice attorney at Walter G. Alton, Jr. & Associates, P.C. today.