| People place their health and their trust in medical professionals every day. Doctors, nurses, dentists, and other medical professionals owe their patients the best possible treatment. Patients trust them to provide professional services in a careful and competent manner. When something goes wrong because a health care provider has been negligent, patients can seek recourse through a malpractice lawsuit. Nearly one hundred thousand deaths in the U.S. each year are caused by preventable medical errors. Many times more people suffer severe and permanent injuries as a result of medical malpractice. Without medical malpractice lawyers, these numbers likely would be much higher. Medical malpractice injuries and illnesses are usually caused by delay of treatment, incorrect diagnosis, delays in diagnosis, performing incorrect procedures or performing procedures without a patient's consent. These errors in judgment or performance can lead to conditions much more serious than those that led the patient to seek medical help in the first place. Some of the most common injuries that medical malpractice attorneys encounter in their work include brain injuries, paralysis, scarring, blindness, organ damage or organ failure, coma or severe infections that require amputation of one or more limbs. | 
