Medical / Pharmaceutical Lawyers
Prescription Errors, Dangerous Drugs, Medical Malpractice and Harmful Medical Devices
Prescription Errors
Most people don’t think twice about taking prescription drugs because they trust their doctors and pharmacists to give them the right medication. But, unfortunately, medication errors happen every day. Prescriptions get misinterpreted or are written incorrectly. The wrong drug is mistakenly dispensed at the pharmacy. The patient is told to take, or is administered, a dangerous dose of the drug. Any number of mistakes along the way can result in a tragedy. According to the FDA, medication errors cause at least one death every day and injure 1.3 million people in the United States every year.
Dangerous Drugs
When healthcare providers prescribe medications, patients assume they must be safe if they were approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). But sometimes, even when an FDA-approved prescription is filled properly and the patient takes the recommended dose, the patient still suffers serious injuries or dies as a result of taking the prescription drug. This can happen because of mistakes in clinical testing or manufacturing, improper labeling or incomplete information about the risks of taking the drug. Some drugs are just too dangerous and should never have been sold in the first place. The FDA tries to prevent serious health risks by recalling dangerous drugs, but a recall usually comes only after the dangerous drugs have already hurt or killed people. Slack & Davis’ legal strategy and timing have been pivotal in helping families obtain financial compensation in pharmaceutical cases involving serious injury or death due to dangerous drugs such as Baycol, Vioxx, Fen Phen and others.
Medical Malpractice and Hospital Negligence
Medical Malpractice is one of the most challenging areas of the law. It encompasses precise legal details and requires an up-to-the-minute understanding of statutory and case changes in the law.
Slack & Davis attorneys have obtained record-setting malpractice verdicts and spurred the reform of unfair laws by the Texas Supreme Court and Courts of Appeal. We believe that by encouraging the medical profession to examine itself, we help ensure a higher level of medical care for everyone.
We routinely handle medical malpractice cases involving failure to diagnose, improper diagnosis, negligent treatment and unnecessary surgery/treatment.
Harmful Medical Devices
Sadly, prescription drugs aren’t the only threat to patients. Medical devices, including artificial heart valves, pacemakers, hip and knee joints, dental implants, stents, orthopedic plates and screws or breast implants also have posed serious health concerns. A recent example: The ASR, a metal-on-metal (MoM) hip implant, is one of several models sold by DePuy Orthopaedics (a unit of Johnson & Johnson). After two years of reports that its ASR hip implant systems were failing in patients, in August 2010 DePuy Orthopaedics recalled its ASRTM XL Acetabular Hip System (approved for use in the U.S. and around the world) and DePuy ASRTM Hip Resurfacing System (only approved for use outside the U.S.). These systems, which first became available in July 2003, were failing in patients only a few years after implant. Sadly, the recall of DePuy’s hip products came after seven years on the market and more than 93,000 patients were potentially affected.
How We Can Help
At Slack & Davis, our in-house ability to screen and investigate complex cases involving dangerous drugs, prescription errors, medical malpractice and defective medical devices sets us apart from other personal injury firms and gives our clients tremendous leverage against tough corporate adversaries. Our full-time, on-site legal nurse consultant provides patient-care expertise, allowing our medical and pharmaceutical attorneys to view the case from many different perspectives. If you have questions about prescription errors, dangerous drugs, medical malpractice and/or medical devices that may have caused serious injuries, please visit the resources listed below – and contact the attorneys at Slack & Davis to learn more.
Resources
Slack & Davis DePuy ASR Hip Implant Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
Slack & Davis News Releases
FDA Medical Device Recall List
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