Everyone knows that mistakes happen. However, sometimes errors are irreversible and can cause someone years of pain and suffering. This is especially true in the medical field. In fact, that is one of the many reasons why medical professionals undergo years of extensive training to ensure they know how to provide adequate care to their patients. Unfortunately, for whatever reason, when a nursing error is made, it can have a huge impact on a patient's well-being and future.
The Laboratory Corporation of America, which is better known by most as LapCorp, is a very common lab used across the country. Whether it is for a drug test prior to employment or to have blood drawn, several people here in New York frequent the facility. One woman in another state is currently suing the company after a nursing error resulted in nerve damage.
A pregnant woman went to LabCorp in Aug. 2012 to have blood drawn. When the nurse stuck the needle in her arm to retrieve the blood sample, she allegedly hit a nerve. This caused immediate pain for the woman, as well as complications that have continuously reoccurred, including weakness, pain and tingling nerve damage.
In her lawsuit, she is citing negligent care and an inadequate procedure for drawing blood. She is seeking damages for medical expenses, pain and suffering, mental anguish, loss of function, lost wages and other related damages. These are the same types of damages that other individuals who have been injured due to a nursing error would likely be able to seek in a civil lawsuit of their own. It is important that New York patients who received substandard care by a nurse, doctor or other medical professional that resulted in short- or long-term injuries understand that they have legal rights.
Source: The Louisiana Record, "Pregnant woman alleges nerve damage after blood draw at LabCorp", Anna Aguillard, Aug. 5, 2014
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