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You think you have become a victim of a medical error and your doctor is not listening

It is true that often doctors, hospital and insurers try to dissuade a medical accident victim from seeing a lawyer. They make the patient feel guilty, ashamed or frightened of the consequences. It is in the financial interest of them to do this. Consult another doctor, then a lawyer.

Before explaining your situation and your complaint to a lawyer, it is judicious that you consult an independent doctor who evaluates your case, explains it to you, answers your medical questions, specifies the undergone damage and the medical causes, and gives you medical arguments for your lawyer. We are there to help you, do not hesitate to contact PatientProtect.com by e-mail: patientprotect@bluewin.ch.

Information needed to submit your case/condition to PatientProtect.com.

Patient details:
Age:
Sex:
Your personal medical history or your anamnesis:
Your current diseases/diagnostics/prognosis:
Your treatment and your drugs/medicines:
The information which you received from your doctors

Description of the effectiveness of your treatment or follow up:

Description of the event which has occurred:
(adverse, unfavourable or undesirable event, side effect, complication, critical incident, accident, failure, near miss, mishap...)

Doctors, nurses and other people involved:

Description of the result:
(in particular damage/injury that you incurred and after effects)

Your dissatisfaction and the facts that you reproach, and who you blame for:

Your interpretation of the facts:

Other notes:

The questions you want answered by PatientProtect.com:

Steps which you have already taken:

Before appointing a medical accident solicitor or a lawyer

Consult for example the website of a patient, who has shared her personal sad experiences and now is taking her case, in person, to the European Court of Human Rights (www.medical-accident.co.uk). Here is what she advises:

Before appointing solicitors, please check who are their insurers.

Check who insures the doctors you are claiming against.

Check who insures the Hospital you had your medical accident.

Check who insures your family doctor.

Ask your solicitor what his priorities are, is it to you his patient first, or to some other business grouping?

Consider finding your own independent medical experts.

Ask your chosen solicitor to tell you how many medical accident cases he / she has dealt with in the past year and to demonstrate to you the outcomes.

Get your own medical accident records yourself, as soon as you can.

Do you really need a solicitor, can you do it on your own?

Share as many of your medical accident experiences with as many people as you can; particularly through the internet - it is a great way of gathering evidence, where evidence cannot be obtained in any other way.