Medical Negligence - Sueing a Practicioner in QLD?

Michelle and Mira...isnt it just appalling!!! I get there are mistakes, but really??? when you are dealing with something so serious? and of course your mind goes off into a tangeant wondering do I even have it at all!!! Causes so much unnecessary angst! 

melclarity, a similar thing happened to me.  I was happily chatting away with the person doing the ultrasound and at the end of it she realised she'd accidentally put it as my right breast and not my left (apparently its easy to do).  She spoke to someone and they couldn't change it, so now when I have an ultrasound and they start questioning "are you sure its your left breast" I tell them about the error.

Hi Melinda,

I had the same thing on a post hysterectomy report - all diagnosis was for the wrong ovary - the one that had been removed years previously!  Turns out they put up the scan back-to-front, and the pathologist adjusted the report.  I also wondered if they had the right person's scans!  No-one seemed disturbed about it though as there was only the one ovary it could have been!  Not a nice feeling though. xx

Hi Ne,

Thanks, that's a huge list and yes makes absolute sense, it certainly sparks alot of concerns. I know a year after my diagnosis, I applied for income protection and was the only time I got hold of all reports, pathology you name it. When I read through one report, all be it a typo error!!!! The doctor in charge of one of the scans listed my right breast...Ummmm it was my left. Its the only time in all the reports but honestly. Put the wind up me!!! and the Surgeons office said they'd get on to it. I never heard anything, and it was obviously an error, but really? opens a can of worms doesn't it?? puts alot of doubt into the process, were my results mixed up so I had to go through extensive reports to make sure they were all consistent. Interesting thing I find though, Oncologists down play effects of treatment before, during and even after. All the best with it. x

@melclarity 
Medical Negligence covers a large range of issues in medical care, including:

• Misdiagnosis
• Failure to warn
• Failure to provide appropriate treatment
• Failure to provide referral to a medical specialist
• Delayed diagnosis
• Failure to properly communicate the risks of treatment
• Failure to perform surgery with 'reasonable care' and skill
• Failure to return correct test results
• Failure to provide crucial post-operative care
• Failure to prescribe the correct medication (or incorrect dosage)
• Dental injuries (eg permanent damage from removal of wisdom teeth)
• Failure to sterilise
• Failure to correctly monitor pregnancy/birth

Hope this helps answer your question.

Hi Ne, I haven't gone down this route myself, however I was wondering what sort of medical negligence as patients we should be aware of? Hugs Melinda xo

HI Ne,

I am in Melbourne & am currently initiating a case. Ring a no win no fee firm to discuss your case & they will advise you whether or not it is worth going ahead with. I believe the processes & laws are different between states. 

Let me know how you go.

Cate