Brooklyn Medical Malpractice Attorney

When we seek medical care, we place our health and our very lives in the hands of doctors, nurses, and hospitals. We trust them to provide competent, professional care. While the vast majority of healthcare professionals are dedicated and skilled, devastating mistakes can and do happen. When a medical professional’s negligence or error causes a patient to suffer a serious injury or death, it constitutes medical malpractice. These are among the most complex, challenging, and emotionally charged personal injury cases. The Law Office of Stuart R. Lang possesses the legal skill, medical knowledge, and unwavering resolve required to hold negligent medical providers accountable and secure justice for victims of malpractice in Brooklyn.

Medical malpractice is not just an unfortunate outcome or a bad result. It is a specific type of negligence defined by a failure to meet the accepted “standard of care.” The standard of care is the level and type of care that a reasonably competent and skilled healthcare professional, with a similar background and in the same medical community, would have provided under the circumstances. To win a medical malpractice case, we must prove four key elements:

1. A Doctor-Patient Relationship Existed: We must show that you hired the medical professional and they agreed to provide you with care.
2. The Provider was Negligent (Breach of the Standard of Care): This is the core of the case. We must demonstrate that the doctor or hospital failed to act as a reasonable professional would have.
3. The Negligence Caused the Injury: There must be a direct causal link between the provider’s error and the harm you suffered.
4. The Injury Resulted in Specific Damages: We must prove that the injury led to tangible and intangible losses, such as additional medical bills, lost income, and pain and suffering.

Proving these elements requires an immense level of resources and expertise. Stuart R. Lang works with a network of highly respected medical experts—doctors, surgeons, and nurses in the relevant specialties—who will review your medical records and provide crucial testimony to establish the standard of care and how it was breached. We leave no stone unturned in our investigation.

We handle a broad range of medical malpractice claims, including:

• Surgical Errors: Such as operating on the wrong body part, leaving a foreign object inside a patient, or causing nerve damage.
• Misdiagnosis or Delayed Diagnosis: Failure to timely and accurately diagnose a serious condition like cancer, heart attack, or stroke, when a competent doctor would have.
• Birth Injuries: Negligence during labor and delivery that results in injuries to the infant, such as cerebral palsy or Erb’s palsy.
• Anesthesia Errors: Administering too much or too little anesthesia, or failing to monitor the patient’s vital signs.
• Medication Errors: Prescribing the wrong drug, the wrong dosage, or a drug to which the patient has a known allergy.
• Emergency Room Errors: Failure to triage patients correctly or diagnose life-threatening conditions.

The consequences of medical malpractice can be catastrophic, often requiring a lifetime of medical care, causing permanent disability, and inflicting profound emotional trauma. We pursue compensation for the full extent of your damages, including all medical costs (past and future), lost earning capacity, the cost of home health aides and medical equipment, and significant awards for pain, suffering, and loss of quality of life. Medical institutions and their malpractice insurance carriers are formidable opponents with vast resources. You need a Brooklyn attorney who is equally formidable. Contact the Law Office of Stuart R. Lang for a confidential and compassionate review of your case.