Failure to Provide a Referral

Malpractice Lawyer Serving Dallas and North Texas

Nobody can be an expert in everything. Family doctors shouldn’t be doing heart surgery, and gynecologists shouldn’t be fixing broken bones. Like any other profession, doctors are required to recognize when a medical problem is something that they can’t handle, and get their patients help from a qualified doctor. This is called the “duty to refer,” and it is a basic rule of medicine. It is medical malpractice for a doctor not to refer a patient to the proper specialist when he is not qualified to treat the patient’s problem.

Modern medicine can work wonders. There are incredibly sensitive and accurate tests available to doctors now that weren’t even dreamed of twenty years ago. There are scanners and machines that would have seemed like science fiction if we heard about them even ten years ago. But none of these medical advances do any good if they aren’t used, or if your doctor doesn’t know what to do with the results.

Polewski & Associates Can Help

At Polewski & Associates, our malpractice attorneys know that when doctors act like they know everything instead of asking a more qualified specialist for help, people get hurt, and people die. This type of medical malpractice is particularly tragic, especially if a loved one dies because the doctor didn’t pick up a phone and ask a specialist for help. Sometimes people die of this kind of medical malpractice when a qualified specialist was literally in the same building, or just down the hall.

Our Dallas malpractice lawyers have more than 25 years of experience handling failure to provide a referral cases. One of our lawyers is also a licensed medical doctor, and he will analyze the details of your case to see if your doctor’s actions met the standards established by the medical profession. If we discover that your doctor was negligent in failing to refer you to the proper specialist, we will fight aggressively to ensure you receive the compensation you deserve.

Please contact Polewski & Associates today to schedule your free initial consultation. We serve clients in Dallas and throughout North Texas.