The most common emergency room errors that a Virginia malpractice attorney handles include:
- Delayed diagnosis
- Diagnostic testing errors, such as failing to conduct needed tests or conducting the wrong ones
- Discharging patients too soon
- Laboratory mistakes
- Lack of staff communication
- Medication errors
- Missed diagnosis
- Poor patient monitoring
- Radiology mistakes
- Refusing to treat a patient who has no health insurance (this is referred to as “patient dumping”)
- Slow triage which results in patients waiting too long before they are seen by medical staff