Medical malpractice errors are responsible for 98,000 wrongful deaths each year. More people die from medical mistakes than from all car accident deaths. Medical malpractice mistakes involving medication errors cause injuries to over 1.3 million persons a year.

Medical malpractice law defines negligent medical conduct as the doing or the failure to do something that a reasonably careful doctor or other health care professional in that field would or would not do under the same or similar circumstances.

In medical malpractice law the fictional “reasonably careful health care provider” standard has been created. The legal issue revolves around whether the doctor, hospital or other health care provider was “negligent.” This “reasonably careful health care provider” is somewhat subjective, in that it allows the medical profession to define the standard by which its conduct will be judged.

At Phillips Law Offices, we work hard to establish through expert testimony the standard of care required of the Defendant doctors or other health care providers in the field of the defendant and that the defendant breached or failed to adhere to that standard of care, thereby causing the plaintiff’s injury. In many medical procedures there are risks which cannot be avoided even if the doctor exercises the greatest caution. These are called unavoidable risks. On the other hand, risks which are unavoidable even when the greatest care has been exercised, may in a particular case, be shown by an attorney to have resulted from lack of due care by the doctor or other health care professional.

As the Co-Chairman of the Medical Negligence Committee of the Illinois Trial Lawyer Association for multiple terms, as well as a leadership lawyer in medical negligence as recognized by a state-wide survey of lawyers. Stephen Phillips has been intimately involved with working through these issues in the profession and for plaintiffs.

Avvo.com, an independent rating service of all United States attorneys, has recently rated Stephen D. Phillips the top Personal Injury Attorney in Illinois with a rating of 10.0 of 10.0, Superb. Mr. Phillips was also ranked by Avvo.com as highest rated Medical Malpractice, Brain Injury Lawyer, Birth Injury Lawyer , and Wrong Death Lawyer in Illinois.

We can help you through your difficult time and work through these complex issues. Contact us today for a free case evaluation of your medical malpractice case.