Medical Negligence Lawyers in Canberra

We have acted for many clients in cases involving negligence by hospital staff, including:

• Stretching a nerve during neck surgery.
• Cutting an artery during abdominal surgery.
• Failing to repair ligaments during knee surgery which were meant to be repaired.
• Performing a surgery that our client had not consented to.
• Failing to diagnose a condition was being caused by a side-effect of a drug being given by the hospital.
• Administering a medication which our client should not have received at all.
• Failing to administering the correct dose of anaesthetic during insertion of pacemaker.
• Physically restraining our client and causing serious hip and pelvic fractures.

For more information on hospital negligence see our pages:

• Hospital Complications and Medical Negligence
• Surgical errors

We have acted for clients in surgical error claims which have included:

• Stretching a nerve during surgery.
• Incorrectly assessing the position of a cyst during neck surgery and damaging nerves.
• Cutting an artery during abdominal surgery.
• Failing to administering the correct dose of anaesthetic during insertion of a pacemaker.
• Failing to recognise a serious complication during surgery and doing nothing to treat the complication.

We have handled cases relating to pregnancy and birth claims which have included:

• Failing to administer early antibiotic cover leading to infection within the birth canal and uterus and leading to premature birth.
• Improperly diagnosing incontinence in an expectant mother when in fact her waters had broken, leading to premature birth and damage to the baby.
• Failing to recognise and treat rapidly increasing blood pressure in the mother causing pre-eclampsia and premature birth.
• Failing to administer the correct type and dose of medication giving rise to injury to the unborn baby in-utero.
• Failing to identify that of part of the placenta had been left in the uterus after the birth of the baby leading to sepsis and a need for surgery.
• Failing to properly repair a third degree tear following episiotomy needed during delivery leading to massive scarring, constant groin pain and affect on activities of daily living.

For more information see our pregnancy and birth claims page.

We have acted for clients against GPs in cases involving:

• Improper advice and management of wrist fracture, including failing to treat swelling.
• Long-term prescription of an antimigraine medication which was only meant to be prescribed for short-term relief.
• Under-dosing a medication during pregnancy, which meant the intended effect of the medication did not occur.
• Prescribing 2 medications which were not meant to be taken together.
• Failing to refer our client to an obstetrician in an at-risk pregnancy.

Examples of cases we have been involved in where there has been a misdiagnoses include: 

• Incorrectly interpreting ultrasound imaging and misdiagnosing breast cancer (plus failing to perform a biopsy of the breast lump).
• Misdiagnosing symptoms of a stroke before it became catastrophic.
• Misdiagnosing pre-eclampsia which caused our client to have a stroke.
• Misdiagnosing the position of a cyst and causing nerve injury during a surgery.

For more information see our page Medical Misdiagnoses.

We have acted for clients in cases involving:

• Long-term prescription of an anti-migraine medication which was only meant to be prescribed for short-term relief.
• Under-dosing a medication during pregnancy, which meant the intended effect of the medication did not occur.
• Overdosing of a medication causing loss of consciousness.
• Prescribing 2 medications which were not meant to be taken together.

For more information see our page Medications and Medical Negligence.