New medical technology is popping up everywhere these days with new and less invasive procedures becoming more popular. Sounds like great news right? Wrong. Along with the increase of new procedures and machines that are helping save lives that normally wouldn't be saved, there has also been a dramatic increase of instances of medical malpractice in hospitals.

Marc J. Bern is an excellent lawyer that deals with medical malpractice and wrongful death lawsuits. If you or a loved one has suffered as a result of medical malpractice contact him and he can help you. Medical malpractice is when a medical professional fall shorts of following the professional standards that are required within their jurisdiction and as a result of this the patient is harmed. One of the most common cases of medical malpractice that Marc J. Bern deals with is a doctor failing to diagnose a patient. With the failure to diagnose the patient doesn't receive proper timely treatment.

Failure to diagnose is very serious in many instances such as diagnosing Cancer, because from the time when it should have been discovered until the time that it is diagnosed can be a long enough period in which the Cancer is spreading and causing more damage. With all serious illnesses the earlier they are caught the better it is for the patient so this can be very dangerous. The most frequent reasons why the doctor fails to diagnose are because the doctors are careless and either orders the wrong types of tests or do not read the results of the tests properly. Other horror stories about medical malpractice have ranged from people unknowingly getting organs nicked during surgery to instances where the wrong limb has been amputated.

In order to file a lawsuit with you have to have a medical professional prove that in the situation you or a loved one endured a medical expert would have acted or did something differently in a similar or same situation. Sometimes it is hard to point a finger at exactly who caused the medical malpractice because in most instances there is more than one doctor working on the patient. This means that if a medical malpractice suit is filed doctors can say that they weren't the one who caused it.

If a loved one has died as a result of a medical malpractice you are eligible to file two separate claims. The first would be a medical malpractice claim for personal loss and suffering. The second one would be a wrongful death claim for the monetary loss suffered by the family of the victim. In the case where a death has occurred the lawsuit can be filed by the spouse and the next of kin.