With medical negligence the damage is not only physical but often leaves the patient with painful and emotional turmoil in dealing with such consequences. It’s for this very reason why many patients are hesitant to make their complaint known against the medical professional or institute who is at the source of such unhappiness. However, if you do feel strongly about the wrongful doing against you, you will need the professional services of medical malpractice attorneys.

As medical malpractice attorneys deal with healthcare legal cases on a daily basis, they will have the knowledge, skill and experience needed in order to successfully lodge your complaint at the Health Professions Council of South Africa (HPCSA). But in order to have a case, your complaint would have had to occur during any one of the following three stages in the medical management process:

• Diagnosis:
• Incorrect or misdiagnosis of the patient’s condition
• Procrastination during diagnosis, resulting in an unfortunate outcome
• Incorrect report of test results
• Treatment:
• Surgery being performed with the proper skill or care
• Post-operative care provided without the proper skill or attention
• Inappropriate treatment of a condition
• Doesn’t provide the patient with appropriate referral for a condition
• Managing disease:
• Insufficient warning or no warning at all of the possible risks involved with a procedure or treatment
• Not informing the patient that there is alternative procedures or treatments available

Your chosen medical malpractice attorneys will first investigate and advise you on the merits of your matter. However, it is important to know that the medical professionals cannot be held responsible for everything that goes wrong.

If you do feel that you want to lodge your complaint, contact Adele van der Walt Attorneys. Their team of medical malpractice attorneys have had ample experience in healthcare legal cases and they will be happy to assist you in lodging your complaint.

For more information on this subject, please give us a call at 012 460 3668 (SA)
or e-mail us at linda@avdw.co.za