Medical malpractice is defined as any instance in which a medical professional either fails to perform within the boundaries of a reasonable standard of care, or acts negligently when delivering care. With the many miraculous medical advancements and procedures that have been introduced in recent decades, one might conclude that medical malpractice is largely a problem of the past. This conclusion is not correct.

There are several factors that explain the continuously steady rate of medical malpractice cases. Almost all of these factors stem from the same reasons that the medical field plays such a prominent role in American life today: growth in an aging population, growth in the availability and access to medical treatment, and growth in the variety of techniques and procedures available to effectively care for patients.

America's population is old, and getting older. That means more people are requiring medical treatment and procedures than ever before. Members of the baby boomer generation are now approaching their sixties. It is a fact that the older you are, the more medical treatment you require. With an increasing percentage of Americans becoming elderly, the needs for medical treatment and care are increasing exponentially.

A main reason why Americans continue to live longer is because of the increasing ease with which they can obtain medical care. In an effort to streamline medical treatment for an aging population, many insurance companies have established health services through Health Management Organizations (HMOs) and Patient Provider Organizations (PPOs). Membership in these organizations gives Americans affordable access to regular medical check-ups and visits, establishing a higher degree of preventive health care and health consciousness.

Yet while these health care management systems make it easier and more cost-efficient for insurance companies to administer health care plans, HMOs and PPOs don't often result in optimal health care solutions for ill and injured Americans. Insurance companies tend to consider financial concerns first when establishing their pool of health care providers, with the quality of health care provided often placing a distant second. As a result, errors due to misdiagnosis, miscommunication, inexperience, lack of qualifications or a simple lack of vigilance are rampant in American hospitals and doctor's offices.

When these errors exacerbate to serious collateral health problems, such as organ failure, brain injury, spinal cord injury, mental illness, disfigurement or disability; when the quality of your health is not just disregarded but also grossly jeopardized, this is called medical malpractice. When medical malpractice occurs, Nichols-Zauzig Litigation Group is fully prepared to challenge and punish those who are responsible.

Medical Malpractice and the Nichols-Zauzig Edge

At Nichols-Zauzig, we recognize that the health care process is just that - a process. Many health care professionals can be involved in a medical visit, surgery or procedure. A mistake or error by any one of those professionals at any point in the process can spell disaster for a patient and be cause for a medical malpractice suit. Medical malpractice suits can involve not only the primary physician, but also the nurse, physician's assistant, nurse practitioner, medical technician, and other hospital staff.

Approaching health care as the process that it is, Nichols-Zauzig launches a painstaking examination of your entire case and investigates every factor that led to your worsened condition. Whether the cause was failure to diagnose an illness; anesthesia errors; failure to prevent infection; leaving a medical device implanted after surgery; surgery without informed consent; certain birth injuries and cerebral palsy; late diagnosis resulting in a diminished chance of survival; misdiagnosis of a condition, or even wrongful death, we will leave no stone unturned in determining what went wrong, when it happened and who was responsible.

Staffed with a highly knowledgeable registered nurse, years of medical investigation experience and an unmatched ability to present our findings in simple, honest and powerful terms to a court room jury, the Nichols-Zauzig Litigation Group is an aggressive medical malpractice law firm and experts in exposing medical negligence and wrongdoing.

We are driven to succeed not only by the desire to bring justice and compensation to our medical malpractice clients, but also to progress in our long-term mission of making the vital fields of medicine and health care safer, one case at a time.