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Medical errors lead to many deaths each year

by | Oct 3, 2019 | Uncategorized

The body is not perfect and people in Illinois need to go to the doctor from time to time. This could be for a routine check up to try and prevent something more serious from occurring. However, many other times it is because the person is sick or injured and needs medical attention in order to get better. Doctors therefore play a very important role in people’s lives and when people go to them, they expect they will do their job and do everything within their power to heal them.

However, doctors like everyone else are human and will make mistakes from time to time. These mistakes can be very costly for the victims though and lead to much bigger problems and even death. A recent study found that approximately 250,000 people die each year due to medical mistakes. This places medical mistakes as the third leading cause of death behind only heart disease and cancer. There are many different mistakes made though and it is not always just a mistake made by a doctor that leads to the death.

Losing a loved one is never easy, but knowing that the death was due to a medical mistake and could have been prevented can make it even more difficult. Families must move on from life without being able to prepare and in fact probably thought the loved one would get better by going to the doctor and not die. These families could be entitled to compensation though through medical malpractice cases. These cases address mistakes made not only by doctors but other medical professionals in charge of their care.

Everyone in Illinois will die at some point in time, but how and when people die varies greatly. Everyone hopes for a peaceful death after living a long, full life, but not everyone is that lucky. Some die unexpectedly and many of those unexpected deaths occur because of medical errors. Families dealing with the loss may be entitled to compensation for their loss though, which can at least ease any financial burdens caused by the death. Navigating these complicated and emotional cases is not easy though and consulting with an experienced attorney could be helpful.

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