Holding Medical Professionals Accountable for Their Mistakes
What Is Medical Malpractice?
Medical malpractice occurs when a healthcare provider's negligence, a deviation from the accepted standard of care, causes injury to a patient. Not every bad outcome qualifies, so it’s important to discuss your case with an experienced medical malpractice attorney to determine if you have a case.
Proving medical malpractice can be a very challenging prospect. Injured people must prove that their doctor was negligent and that this negligence caused an injury that caused harm. A medical expert’s opinion is needed to show that the doctor’s negligence was the cause of the injury.
PJ Campanaro has the resources and knowledge to help you prove negligence and bring a case. She will investigate every aspect of the injury and then create a personalized legal strategy based on your case’s unique details.
What We Do
Attorney Campanaro helps clients who have been injured in a variety of ways, including those involving:
- IV infiltration
- Burn injuries
- Medical abandonment
- Birth injuries
- Failure to diagnose
- Hospital-acquired infections and diseases
- Surgical error
- Failure to communicate test results
- Failure to detect and treat infections
- Pharmacy and prescription errors
- Medication errors
- Pituitary tumor surgery
Common Birth Injuries Associated With Medical Malpractice
These examples of malpractice during childbirth can cause potentially lifelong disabilities, such as:
- Traumatic brain injury (TBI)
- Skull fractures
- Cerebral palsy
- Spinal cord damage
- Erb’s palsy
Tragically, many fetuses and newborns do not survive negligence from their mother’s physician.
Birth injuries can require expensive medical care to treat. If the baby is left permanently disabled, it could require special equipment like a wheelchair and customized vehicles for life. It might also require assistance from home health care workers and other professionals. These are all examples of economic damage to your family. Many families in this situation cannot afford the care their child needs. The law states that the negligent health care provider, not the victims, should have to pay.
Noneconomic damages, on the other hand, are harms that do not come with an obvious dollar amount attached but are just as real and life-changing. Examples include your child’s pain and suffering and emotional anguish due to their injuries and needed medical procedures. Georgia, South Carolina and Tennessee all allow malpractice plaintiffs to seek compensation for noneconomic damages, though each state caps the amount you can recover.
PJ Campanaro works with families to accurately calculate how much each child and family have suffered because of medical malpractice at birth and pursue maximum compensation.
Why People Choose PJ Campanaro
Medical malpractice claims are among the most technically demanding cases in personal injury law, often requiring expert testimony, detailed medical record review, and the resources to stand up to hospital systems and their insurers.
PJ works to build a clear, well-supported case on your behalf so you can focus on recovery while she handles the legal fight. Paired with her compassionate approach and her decades of experience in the courtroom, she is able to provide her clients with realistic case evaluations, focused attention, and rigorous representation both during settlement negotiations and in litigation.
PJ Campanaro’s Insights Into Medical Malpractice
Ready to Learn More?
If you believe you may have suffered harm from a healthcare professional’s negligence, you may have a medical malpractice case. Start the process of pursuing justice today by scheduling your free consultation. Call 706-821-2222 or send the form.