Emergency Room Errors – Pennsylvania Medical Malpractice Attorneys Richards & Richards, LLP
Saturday, May 22nd, 2010
Not all medical conditions can be prevented. When you go to the emergency room it is the doctor and staff of that hospital’s responsibility to rule out any life-threatening conditions. Cases we see where mistakes have been made in the emergency room include strokes, heart attacks, pulmonary embolism, and other conditions that should have been ruled out that turned out to cause permanent injury or death. Richards & Richards, LLP have been handling medical malpractice cases for over 20 years. We handle cases across Pennsylvania in places like Pittsburgh, Sharon, New Castle, Erie, Indiana, Johnstown, Hastings, Altoona, Tyrone, Greensburg, Latrobe, Aliquippa, Kittanning and surrounding areas.
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Veronica Richards is both a Pittsburgh medical malpractice attorney and a nurse practitioner. She takes suing a doctor, hospital or other health care professional very seriously. She uses her medical background to help her investigate the 
We put our lives in our doctors hands. While most doctors care about their patients, accidents and mistakes happen on a frequent basis. We have seen hundreds of cases of medical malpractice where the information that the physician needed to make a proper diagnosis was there, but no one looked. We have helped those whose lives have changed because of the error of someone at a hospital, physicians office, dentists office, chiropractor’s office or in the emergency room. We handle cases across the state of Pennsylvania and in places like Pittsburgh, Erie, Meadville, Butler, Sharon, Bradford, New Castle, Oil City, Franklin, Waynesburg, Greensburg, Indiana, Johnstown, Altoona, Bedford and surrounding areas. We offer free initial consultations and there is never a cost to you unless a financial recovery is made. People understand that medical care is not like auto mechanics. Unexpected side effects and complications can and do occur as doctors work with people’s bodies — each of which is unique. Sudden turns for the worse may take place in an emergency room, in surgery or during recovery after surgery. Death during or after surgery is not necessarily a result of negligence on the part of a surgeon, anesthetist or nurse. However, a detailed investigation sometimes reveals that health care providers have deliberately covered up physician mistakes made in the course of medical care and treatment. Our