Psychiatric MalPrac (as minor)

[quincy]

This is unfortunate but true as I am finding, it seems to be similar across the board. I am wondering if there is a different type of attorney I can consult with rather than malpractice, which I mentioned in bold in the post. I went to MP first, hoping perhaps someone could share a similar experience or route. Thanks for your feedback.

I am afraid you will find that there is no legal action to pursue so I don’t think what attorney you see matters much.

A personal injury, or malpractice, or possibly a product defect claim might have been able to be fashioned from the facts long ago ... but you are now going to bump into statutes of limitations.

Sorry. I hope you are able to eventually leave your past in the past and move on.

 

[bb1909]

One thing that stuck out to me is your attribution of missed job opportunities to your childhood hospitalizations, etc. How did these prospective employers know about your childhood hospitalizations, etc?

Anytime a fingerprint is scanned for a background check the 302 comes into question. As mentioned, I could not join the military for one, but if you are so curious, go to google.com and search "what types of jobs run background checks?"

It isn't so much the follow-up/initial "care" (or severe lack of, in my case), it's the fact that the 302 for sneaking out of the house was immediately attributed to a non-diagnosis, which later then became a diagnosis, which was ruled out as a misdiagnosis.

 

[adjusterjack]

I am wondering if there is a different type of attorney I can consult with rather than malpractice,

No. It's either medical malpractice or nothing.

 

[bb1909]

I am afraid you will find that there is no legal action to pursue so I don’t think what attorney you see matters much.

A personal injury, or malpractice, or possibly a product defect claim might have been able to be fashioned from the facts long ago ... but you are now going to bump into statutes of limitations.

Sorry. I hope you are able to eventually leave your past in the past and move on.

Thanks. Yes, I'm thankful to have a solid attorney in my corner for the restoration of my rights. I left the past in the past a long time ago, it wasn't until a month ago that I realized why I had been running into problems for all of these years as an adult.

Maybe I am wrong, but I don't think it's fair or ethical for myself or any child to have gone through something like that and then, because of bureaucratic mismanagement and bad practice, have to pay the price for it. It's just not right.

 

[bb1909]

No. It's either medical malpractice or nothing.

I tend to agree based on my limited research in Med Mal-Practice (again, a brand new topic for me which is why I am here). Do you have any idea why this is? I mean, I am genuinely curious. My best guess is that people would take advantage of lawsuits more often if they knew they could sue hospitals. MMP was a suggested route for me by my other attorney, but even with a discovery claim, it's a stretch (and quite honestly, it wouldn't have been my first inclination).

 

[quincy]

Thanks. Yes, I'm thankful to have a solid attorney in my corner for the restoration of my rights. I left the past in the past a long time ago, it wasn't until a month ago that I realized why I had been running into problems for all of these years as an adult.

Maybe I am wrong, but I don't think it's fair or ethical for myself or any child to have gone through something like that and then, because of bureaucratic mismanagement and bad practice, have to pay the price for it. It's just not right.

There are many “not right” things for which there is no legal cure.

 

[adjusterjack]

I tend to agree based on my limited research in Med Mal-Practice (again, a brand new topic for me which is why I am here). Do you have any idea why this is?

I do. What the lawsuit is about is negligence. Proving that a medical provider was negligent is more complicated than proving that the guy who ran you over was negligent. Medical Mal-Practice law is a specialty because of it's complexity just as Personal Injury law is a specialty because of its own criteria. Both involve negligence.

My best guess is that people would take advantage of lawsuits more often if they knew they could sue hospitals

People sue hospitals every day. Often at the same time they sue doctors, nurses and anybody else involved in the procedure.