When the Emergency Room Wait Leads to Death

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When the Emergency Room Wait Leads to Death
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When patients Health Suffers because of Emergency
Room?
People visiting the emergency room are either
there because they sustained severe injuries that
could only be treated in a hospital or because
the illness or injuries were sustained when their
regular medical facilities were closed and their
conditions were too serious to delay treatment
until the offices were open again. For these
reasons, it only makes sense that patients in the
emergency room need to be treated as quickly as
possible, but sometimes patients are not treated
as quickly as they should be and their health
suffers as a result.
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Damage caused by delay in treatment
A delay in treatment can be extremely detrimental
in some cases. As a Philadelphia medical
malpractice attorney at The Weitz Firm, LLC
knows, the harm may not always be deadly, but
delayed treatment can cause injuries to worsen or
cause additional injuries. Delays may also cause
the need for additional treatment such as a blood
transfusion due to losing too much blood in the
waiting room.
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Longest wait time in Philadelphia
An NBC10 news report covered the especially long
wait times in the greater Philadelphia area
emergency rooms. Research for the report found
that the three hospitals with the longest wait
times had median wait times of over one hour
before patients were treated in the emergency
room.
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Other Types of ER Malpractice
Other types of malpractice that frequently takes
place in emergency rooms include the following
Failure to diagnose
Improper discharge
Refusal to treat an emergency medical condition
Failure to treat
Medication error
Ignoring symptoms or not believing patients
complaints
Failure to order appropriate tests
Contaminated blood transfusion
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Are You Victim of Emergency Room Mistreatment?
If you have experienced long wait times or other
emergency room mistreatment and were injured or
sustained greater injuries, as a result, contact
a Philadelphia emergency room malpractice
attorney, Eric Weitz. Emergency rooms are meant
to help those with serious illnesses and
injuries. They are not meant to cause greater
patient injuries and when they do, emergency room
representatives should pay.
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Contact
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