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in the State of Florida it’s a challenge
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it’s complex to sue a health care
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provider uh including a doctor a
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Hospital nurses or other insul employees
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in medical Mal practice it’s required
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that you establish that there’s been a
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deviation from the standard of care and
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what that means in layman’s terms is
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they fail to do it the way they should
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have done it uh what the prevailing Uh
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custom is in that community and in
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addition uh you have to establish that
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not only did they fail to do what they
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should have done but that it caused harm
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to the patient so there’s a legal cause
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Nexus that’s required in a medical Mal
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practice case in a medical M practice
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case unlike any other type of litigation
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you’re get in a car wreck in the morning
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a lawyer can have a case filed for you
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by the end of the day you can’t do that
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in a medical malpractice case the law
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requires pruit investigation Pres
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investigation is something you must give
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notice to the uh potential defendant the
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person you’re going to sue and you have
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to give them 90 days of informal uh
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Discovery and it’s an exchange of
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informal Discovery and most importantly
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you have to have an expert or experts to
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verify your belief that there’s been
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medical malpractice that caused harm to
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the individual so it’s a very high
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standard and very complex and that’s
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really why it’s so important for people
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that have been harmed to go to someone
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who has the experience the knowledge and
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the team of nurses and experts in other
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areas to supplement the L litigation
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team uh it’s very important in our firm
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we have in-house nurses we have people
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that have experience to evaluate the
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cases and the evaluation of the case
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takes place before even file the notice
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uh it’s critical that you you you have
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people know how to handle medical
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malpractice cases and everybody doesn’t
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so it’s critical that an individual who
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believes that he or she are their family
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member someone some someone close to
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them has been uh harmed damaged by
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medical negligence at the hand of a
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healthc care provider and again it’s the
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doctor it’s the nurse it could be the
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policies of the hospital the hospital
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staff itself non-physician Personnel
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I’ve seen the gamut of what what occurs
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in medical negligence situations that it
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caused harm and I use often use the
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scenario for ex uh uh illustration if a
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car runs through a stop sign and doesn’t
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hit anybody it broke the law but it
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didn’t cause harm the same is true in a
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medical malpractice situation just
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because you have the deviation is not
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enough you have to have legal cause that
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it brought injury or damage to the
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individual we spent a lot of time uh
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literally collectively cumul ative we
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have hundreds of years of handling
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medical malpractice cases in the state
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and it’s very important to know that
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there’s a statute of limitations so as
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soon as you believe that you have had
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some type of injury it’s important to
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give uh give us a call and our
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experience has a unique feature in it we
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did both sides we used to represent the
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healthc care providers for 30 years and
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now we represent individuals who are
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harmed by the healthcare providers that
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gives us an Insight at as to what
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they’re going to do we know their game
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plan and it makes our case even stronger
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and we’ve had great success based on
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that experience