Practice areas
Medical Malpractice
Medical malpractice law is a primary area of focus at Kane & Silverman, and it's an area of practice that is growing rapidly. Nearly a million people are injured or killed each year in the United States due to medical errors. In our more than two decades of practice, we have seen virtually every type of medical error imaginable, including for example, cases involving:
- Failure to diagnose cancer or other diseases
- Delay in diagnosis
- Improper administration of anesthesia
- Failure to obtain the patient's informed consent for a medical procedure
- Failure to render proper treatment for a medical condition
- Prescribing the wrong drug
- Prescribing too much or too little of the correct drug
- Failure to provide treatment in an emergency room setting
- Surgical instruments left in the patient during surgery
- Failure to perform proper pre-natal testing
- Failure to properly interpret test results
- Operating on the wrong body part or performing multiple procedures on the same body part
- Operating on the wrong patient
Physicians, nurses and other health care professional do make mistakes, and more often than you might think. When a medical professional's negligence causes an injury, it is our job to help you achieve a just recovery. A medical malpractice lawyer at Philadelphia's Kane and Silverman can help you to obtain and to understand and interpret the medical files and information related to your medical malpractice case. We would be pleased to meet with you, wherever and whenever, you desire, to discuss your case in detail.
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