Hospital Medical Accident | Assisting a Hospital Medical Accident Victim, with a Claim for 40 Million Won in Damages Granted

A hospital medical accident refers to a case in which damage to a patient occurs due to the negligence or carelessness of a medical practitioner in the course of a hospital's medical treatment.

It can occur in all treatment processes, such as diagnosis, prescription, surgery, and drug administration, but there are many cases in which it is difficult to prove the hospital's responsibility because the patient lacks specialized knowledge even though the patient suffered harm directly.

For this reason, when a hospital medical accident occurs, it is best to obtain the help of a specialist medical accident attorney who has medical expertise and litigation experience.

A specialist medical accident attorney assists so that the client may receive proper compensation for harm by securing a specialist's expert opinion, analyzing medical records, and proving the hospital's responsibility.

We will examine the representative types of hospital medical accidents.

-Diagnostic errors
-Inattentive treatment
-Infection problems caused by failure to comply with hygiene standards
-Accidents arising from communication problems among medical staff
-Accidents caused by drug side effects

When prescribing medication to a patient, a medical practitioner has a duty of care to give sufficient consideration to the drug's efficacy, side effects, and permissible dosage.

In particular, for a patient who has undergone surgery after admission, more careful medication management is needed in consideration of reduced physical strength and the patient's condition.

Nevertheless, the daily dosage of the medication that the defendant hospital prescribed to the client exceeded the maximum permissible amount set by the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety, and the hospital induced long-term use without medication guidance or warnings while the client was taking it.

The medical accident specialized attorney emphasized that the defendant hospital's measures constituted clear prescription negligence and amounted to a violation of the medical practitioner's duty of care, in that the hospital disregarded the possibility of drug-related side effects despite being sufficiently able to foresee it.

After discharge, the client took the medication prescribed by the defendant hospital every day, and after the point at which the client began taking it, certain physical symptoms (for example, decline in organ function, neurological abnormalities, and the like) newly developed or worsened.

The medical accident specialist attorney secured the client's medical records, imaging materials, test values, medication prescriptions, and the like, and compiled a comparison of the client's health condition before and after taking the medication.

In addition, by proving that the client's symptoms were considerably similar to the list of conditions recognized as side effects of the medication, the attorney argued the causal relationship between the excessive prescription of the medication and the deterioration in health.

Where a prescribed drug carries a risk of side effects, the medical practitioner has a duty to provide the patient with detailed guidance on precautions when taking it, the possibility of side effects occurring, and how to respond if abnormal symptoms occur.

This is part of the duty to explain, which helps the patient make the medical judgments necessary for the patient.

The defendant hospital, however, provided the client with no explanation whatsoever regarding the risks of taking the prescribed drug and the possibility of side effects occurring, nor did it give any written or oral instructions on precautions during medication.

As a result, the client thought that the physical abnormalities felt while taking the drug were part of the recovery process, and the harm grew even greater.

The medical accident specialist attorney emphasized that, because the defendant hospital had ignored and neglected a sufficiently foreseeable risk, it also bore responsibility for the resulting violation of the duty to explain and the neglect of the duty of care.

A hospital medical accident is a field that requires both specialized medical knowledge and legal knowledge at the same time.

In order to prove the cause of the accident or to establish whether there was 🔗medical negligence, complex procedures such as analysis of medical records and medical appraisal are indispensable.

Therefore, if you intend to file a claim for damages arising from a medical accident, you should prove the legitimate harm and claim appropriate compensation with the help of a specialist attorney with extensive experience in medical litigation.

Law Firm Daeryun's medical accident specialist attorneys provide legal services covering the entire process, including ▲analysis of medical and treatment records ▲medical appraisal and securing expert opinions to prove causation and negligence ▲selection of damage items and assessment of the scale of compensation ▲filing of civil litigation.

Because medical accidents are difficult to prove and the procedures are complex, it is most important to obtain the help of an attorney with expertise and experience.

We hope that you will obtain an attorney referral from Law Firm Daeryun and respond accordingly.