New York Medical Malpractice & Birth Injury

New York Medical Malpratice Prevention

How can you protect yourself and your family from a New York medical malpractice? Here is a list of New York medical malpractice prevention tips.

• Check the medical malpractice record of all your New York doctors before any operation.
• Do not sign any hospital form unless you fully understand everything on it.

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• Ask doctors to explain the known alternatives and the risks of the procedure they recommend.
  
• Ask how many times they have performed your surgery and what their success rate and mortality rate has been.
  
• Ask your surgeon and your anesthesiologist if they personally will perform the entire operation.
  
• Ask questions about all medications you are given to be sure they are right for you.
  
• Ask them to put in writing a detailed description of the operation, identifying the unique complications or risks related to that procedure, why these complications might occur, and how often they have occurred previously in the doctor's personal practice.
  
• Make sure they are board certified to perform the procedure.
  
• Ask the hospital how often they have performed your operation, how many adverse incidents they reported last year, and what rating they were given by the Joint Commission on the Accreditation of Health Care Organizations during their last inspection.
  
• Insist that all health care workers wash their hands before attending to your needs.
  

• illness during pregnancy
• premature delivery
• lack of oxygen supply to the baby