Carolina Medical Malpractice Trial Attorney
The legal practice of E. Vernon F. Glenn is founded to protect the rights of individuals and be an advocate for those who have been injured by the carelessness and negligence of others.
If you or someone you love has suffered an injury or a wrongful death due to medical negligence or malpractice, Contact South Carolina medical malpractice attorney E. Vernon F. Glenn, Esquire, for a free initial case review.
For additional information on what constitutes medical malpractice, visit http://www.scmedicalmalpracticelawyer.com/
Medical Malpractice Takes Many Forms
Regrettably, medical malpractice takes many forms, and may involve many individuals, including doctors, nurses, surgeons, pharmacists, drug and medical device manufacturers, hospital and emergency room personnel, medical technology, ambulance companies, or others.
Some of the most common types of medical malpractice involve:
- Misdiagnosis or failure to diagnose
- Failure to treat
- Patient abandonment or failure to monitor
- Surgical errors
- Laparoscopic or minimally invasive surgical complications
- Obstetrical malpractice and delivery room malpractice, including birth injuries
- Neo-natal (newborn) malpractice and pediatric malpractice
- Bariatric, weight loss surgery
- Medication errors, such as improper prescriptions
One of the worst forms of medical negligence involves injuring newborns during their birth. Many birth injuries occur due to conditions that arise during pregnancy or during the delivery process. Many times birth injuries lead to cerebral palsy, which ultimately requires life-long care for the newborn.
Over the course of his 30 years in practice, E. Vernon F. Glenn has built up strong relationships with a number of doctors and other medical professionals. These people know the standard of care in their fields and make themselves available for Mr. Glenn to call upon when he needs a medical analysis for your case.
If you need to bring medical malpractice or birth injury lawsuit, please Contact the Law Offices of E. Vernon F. Glenn. In most instances, personal injury cases are taken on a contingency fee basis, which means there are no legal fees unless we recover damages on your behalf. Contact E. Vernon F. Glenn, Esquire, through this web site or by calling our convenient toll-free number.
Bariatrics - Weight Loss Surgery
The health benefits are numerous but it's not a surgery to rush into and requires careful consideration by the patient, a lot of research and a dedication to change a lifestyle. On my end of the bariatric field, I get to see the less than ideal outcomes. Certainly, there are accepted complications that arise from this very complex surgery. That's not what I'm dealing with - primarily my cases involve failure to diagnose these known complications and to failure to treat them expeditiously, before a cascade of additional injury can occur.
Thoughts About Medical Malpractice Cases
These are, simply put, tough, tough cases to deal with. I’ve been evaluating them, working them up and trying them for almost my entire 30+ year career. They are only about 10% of my case load but they take more than 50% of my time. We get over 400 calls and inquiries a year about medical negligence cases alone and we have to be very careful in our vetting and selection process. Why so many calls? Well, most lawyers in town do not undertake these cases for many of the reasons I’ll describe below and most lawyers in town know that I enjoy evaluating and thinking about these matters so it’s a natural fit and many cases come to my office by referral and guidance from other attorneys.
Also, there is a lot of medical injury out there. Plainly put, the National Institutes of Health find that there are about TEN THOUSAND!! or more unnecessary deaths a year in this country because of medical errors. That is the equivalent of one jumbo jet a week crashing into the ground with the ensuing deaths of all passengers and crew aboard. Do you think that if that happened for even three weeks in a row that the American Public and Government would be raising holy, unshirted Hell about what was going on and they’d want it fixed and quick? About 20 years ago, the Harvard School of Public Health published in the New England Journal of Medicine two mega-studies that have come to be known as the Harvard I and II Studies. They estimated then and there has been no trending downward since that between 1% and 3% of all hospitalized patients in this country are iatrogenically (Health Care Caused) injured, with those injuries ranging from slight to the ultimate, death. (Yet, the government’s basic response to this ongoing epidemic and cascade of medical malpractice is to impose limits and caps on recoveries and to make bringing lawsuits harder to bring. They punish the people when they get hurt. Remarkable. They call it “Tort Reform”. I call it what it really is which is the stuck you find on the ground wherever bulls are. Elsewhere on this website, you’ll find some additional comments from me on this terrible trend known as Tort Reform.)
Generally, what we do when we get a call is send you a questionnaire that helps us take a look at what the problem is.
So, that’s my small primer on Medical Malpractice.
If you have doubt or questions or wonder what happened to you or a loved one, give us a call. But please do not waste time or put the call off. Statutes of limitation are running and some of the saddest calls I’ve had to make in my career are to people who had serious injuries or had suffered worse and who had let the time allowed by law run out. Please, act when and while you can.
MED MAL - The Good, the Bad, and The Ugly...
Here's why many lawyers won't touch a med mal or medical negligence case versus why I am intrigued by them ...
Attorney Glenn's comments and background on medical malpractice issues featured in...
Most people aren't sure what they're coming to me for," Vernon Glenn, the South Carolina trial attorney, told me. "The tip off is often from nurses saying 'This was just wrong. This never should have happened.' " The families ask him to have a look at the medical files. If the loss or injury is serious, he has a medical expert review the files. "More often than you would think, we'll say, 'Here's what happened. ...We don't think it's a case.' And they'll say, 'At least we know what happened now.' "
