Medical Malpractice / Pharmaceutical / Nursing Home Injuries

When clients come to Braden, Varner & Aldous, P.C. with a medical malpractice, pharmaceutical, or nursing home case, they are looking for answers. They or a family member has gone to a doctor, hospital or nursing home and suffered catastrophic injury or death. Now they want to find out why.

A bad outcome in itself is not medical malpractice. If the nursing home, hospital or doctor followed the accepted standards of care, there is nothing a medical malpractice lawyer can do about it. However, if the injury or death was caused by a failure of the doctor or facility to provide the appropriate care, the lawyers at Braden, Varner & Aldous, P.C. can help you. Victims need an experienced lawyer to help them determine if the case is truly one of simply a bad result, or if the case is a result of the negligence of a doctor, hospital or nursing home. Those in the medical community rarely admit to their patients that they have made mistakes that amount to malpractice. However, a victim of malpractice has a fighting chance at proving a malpractice case with an experienced lawyer familiar with the standards of care and capable of proving that standard to a jury. The lawyers at BVA have been successful at prosecuting medical and nursing home malpractice cases on behalf of their clients. Some of the cases worked on include failure to diagnose cancer, birth injuries, misdiagnosis of heart attack, misdiagnosis of aortic dissection, use of the wrong medication, use of the wrong medication amount, lost pathology, surgical mistake, inattention of nursing staff, failure to monitor instruments, violations of hospital staff by-laws, malfunction of hospital equipment and unnecessary medical procedures.

Many clients come to BVA complaining that a side effect of a prescription or over the counter medication has caused serious injury or death. Many clients are shocked to learn that the medication manufacturer did not disclose some adverse results to the FDA before the drug was approved. In 1990, the United States General Accounting Office presented its report on the FDA Drug Review Post Approval Risks. In its report, the GAO determined that 102 of the 198 drugs approved by the FDA for the 1976-1985 time period had serious post-approval risks that led to label changes or withdrawal from the market. Drugs that were reviewed for use in children were more than twice as likely to have serious post-approval risks. In 1994, an estimated 106,000 patients died from a serious adverse drug reaction. This means that adverse drug reactions would be between the fourth and sixth leading cause of death in the United States, behind only heart disease, cancer, stroke and pulmonary diseases. Despite the magnitude of the risk, the FDA only has a full time staff of 52 to monitor the safety of 5,000 medications. The Division of Pharmacovigilance and Epidemiology has only eight M.D.s and one Ph.D. in epidemiology. In many cases, the only way the deficiencies in a drug are discovered and brought to the attention of the public is through the efforts of a lawyer on behalf of his client. The lawyers at BVA are experienced in pharmaceutical injury cases and have successfully prosecuted cases on behalf of its clients in the past. BVA will spend the time and money necessary to find out what the company knew about adverse events, when they knew it, and what they did about it.

Free Case Evaluation: Contact Dallas medical malpractice lawyers Bobby Varner and Steve Aldous.