Medical malpractice occurs in a variety of ways. Botched surgeries often spring to mind when malpractice comes up, but pharmaceutical errors can be just as detrimental.

When a person receives the wrong medication, it can have severe effects. The patient can react to the medication in ways that can cause permanent damage or even death.

If you or someone you know has been injured by medical malpractice, contact the Philadelphia medical malpractice attorneys of Lowenthal & Abrams at 215-329-3511.

A Dunmore woman was awarded $1.88 million by a Lackawanna County jury for a medical malpractice suit filed on behalf of her husband. The suit alleged that Wayne Memorial Hospital and two of its doctors failed to diagnose the man's bladder cancer.

The husband died in 2008 from the cancer. One of the doctors found an enlarged prostate but did not look into it any further, allowing the cancer to spread. When it was finally found, he underwent surgery and was soon told that his cancer was untreatable. He died shortly thereafter.

If you or someone you know has been injured by medical negligence, contact the Philadelphia medical malpractice attorneys of Lowenthal & Abrams at 215-329-3511.

The third leading cause of death in the US is medical malpractice according to an article printed in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Every year, about 250,000 people are killed as a result of medical malpractice.

Of those, 12,000 are killed by unnecessary surgeries, 7,000 die from medication errors, general hospital errors account for 20,000 deaths, infections cause 80,000 deaths, and negative drug effects kill 106,000 people.

If you or someone you know has been injured by medical malpractice, contact the Philadelphia medical malpractice attorneys of Lowenthal & Abrams at 215-329-3511.