Q: Will my son have a malpractice case or personal injury
My son was see in the ER for an infection on his right foot it was Swollen and painful the doctor cut his foot open and drained it but was not probably drained and the infection had gotten worse his pain was so out of control that we mad several visit to the same ER For the same reason I then took him to another ER in Stockton and then Kaiser in Manteca transported him to Santa Clara wher he was hospitalized for MRSA on foot and lungs infection
A: If your son has a case, it would be for malpractice. Getting an MRSA infection is not, by itself, evidence of malpractice. You should contact a medical malpractice attorney to discuss the issue. Your son's medical records will need to be obtained from every ER where he was seen, as well as the Santa Clara hospital. The attorney will need to have those records reviewed by an ER physician to evaluate whether there is evidence of malpractice. This will cost thousands of dollars and there is no guarantee of the result of this evaluation. Even if the evaluation is positive, the ER physician will then retain his own expert who will, no doubt, have a contrary opinion.
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