Most of us try and avoid going to the doctor or even worst still hospitals. While these are places of healing many people rather focus on the fact that while there, you are surrounded by unhappiness and illness. Therefore, when you are at the receiving end of medical negligence, the experience is all the more drastic. Medical negligence is the act or omission of a health care professional such as a doctor, nurse or dentist that causes injury, suffering or, in worst case scenarios, death. By deviating from the accepted health care standards and regulations the health care professional can be held accountable and in such a case the patient or family of the patient will be required to seek the expertise of medical law specialists.

When medical negligence does occur it is well within your right to seek recourse. With the help of medical law specialists, such as Adele van der Walt Attorneys, you can be assured that the proper procedures will be followed. Apart from medical negligence, Adele van der Walt Attorneys also specialises in workplace injuries, public liabilities, insurance disabilities and surrogacy agreements.

With our help as medical law specialists you can seek settlement or have matters resolved through litigation for the following cases:

• Heparin overdose
• Foreign objects left in bodies
• Misdiagnosis / Wrong diagnosis
• Surgical Errors
• Dental Errors
• Breast Implant Malpractice
• Psychiatric Malpractice
• Anaesthesia Malpractice
• Birth Injuries
• Cosmetic Surgery
• Doctor Patient Confidentiality Breaches
• Prescription Drug malpractice
• Emergency Room Errors
• Elder Abuse / Nursing Home Neglect
• Laparoscopic procedures
• Botox misuse
• Landmark case decision State duty to pay judgment debt

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