Do I have a personal injury case if my current doctor's treatment is not working on me?

I am on dialysis and I was given these 2 drugs that are now into cause hearing loss in patients. Especially if they'd have damaged kidneys and impaired hearing. I had both. I had a kidney/pancreas transplant both lost those earlier this year because I was sick. So what kidney function I had was like 5 percent. My hearing was also compromised I was deaf in my right ear since 2003 so I only had what was left in my left ear. I wore a hearing aid. I was given gentomycin and vancomycin. Together they will damage the inner hairs of the ear. I woke up on May 16th and I couldn't hear a thing. My walking is also messed up, everything goes up and down. Doesn't bother me when I sit. Anyway, someone was negligent, some should have checked. My regular doctor doesn't cover the dialysis clinic; there are 2 other doctors there. I found out I wasn’t just given this once but at least twice. It was obvious my kidneys weren’t working, and they knew I wore a hearing aid and that I was deaf in my right ear already. Why would they do this knowing I only had my one ear?
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Answered By: Rose, Senders & Bovarnick, LLC
You may have a valid medical negligence case. A doctor is negligent if he or she either does something or fails to do something that a reasonable doctor would not have or would have done, respectively. The claim must be made within two years of your knowledge that that the doctor might have been negligent. To figure out whether you have a claim, though, I would have to have all of your relevant medical records,, and I would have to have an expert look at them to determine whether the standard of care was violated.

Answer Applies to: Oregon
Replied: 9/23/2011

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