Medical malpractice
A bad outcome is not always an error. Some are.
Antoinette reviews claims of a missed diagnosis, a surgical or medication error, and harm during childbirth or in a hospital stay.
Most of the work happens before a claim is filed. She gathers the chart, reads it against the standard of care, and has a physician in the same field say whether that standard was met.
If the answer is no, she tells you so, and you owe nothing for the review. If it is yes, the expert's fee is a case cost, and it is explained in your agreement before it is spent.
How a review runs
The full medical chart, requested in writing
A physician's review in the same specialty
A clear account of what changed for you
Costs explained before they are spent
What a claim of this kind needs
A harm you can name
An injury, a new condition or a loss of function that came from the care, and not from the illness that brought you in.
A standard that was not met
Not the result alone: what a careful provider in the same field would have done, and whether it was done.
An expert who will say so
A physician willing to review the chart and to stand behind the opinion if the case is filed.
Honest limits
What she cannot take
Many outcomes, even grave ones, come from the illness itself and not from the care. Antoinette will not file a claim an expert cannot support, and she will tell you that early, before you spend on records.
Deadlines to bring a medical claim are short and run from different dates in different states. If you suspect an error, call before you hire anyone else to ask the question.
Bring the chart and the question.
A first conversation costs nothing. If the claim cannot be supported, you will hear that plainly.