What is ROP and How We Can Help
Retinopathy of Prematurity is a treatable disease that, if timely diagnosed, should have lead to normal or near-normal vision.
We are a dedicated group of consumer lawyers that have joined forces in order to hold accountable healthcare practitioners and hospitals who failed to diagnose and treat your baby’s Retinopathy of Prematurity (ROP). As a result, your baby may now be blinded for life.
Question: How can we help you and your family?
Answer: If this is your situation, we will represent you and your family to ensure that the necessary financial and social resources are recovered to compensate you for the spiraling cost of future medical care. Your beautiful child will have many needs in the years ahead; We can help prepare you.
We are a resource that can help meet the needs of parent and child, such as:
- Referral to the BEST medical experts that treat ROP
- Finding educational opportunities for you and your child
- Direction for free government services where they are available
- Answer all your questions, totally free of charge and without commitment
Our goal is to facilitate all needs necessary for the premature infant that is blinded as a result of ROP and to see that your child has the best of care and compensation for the devastating injuries he or she has suffered.
We know that simple everyday tasks may become very difficult. School, physical therapy and making doctors appointments require enhanced direction.
Medical Wrongdoing
A misdiagnosis is what has led to your child’s Retinopathy of Prematurity. While all doctors are humans and they make mistakes like anyone else, they have been trained to identify if a baby may have this disease. However, It was their responsibility to prevent ROP from happening.
There is a time window for specialists known as pediatric retinal ophthalmologists to treat your baby’s eyes, after which the likelihood of successful surgery drops significantly. In order to determine whether or not your childs ROP was preventable, we must obtain copies of all medical records, including photographs and x-rays. Those records, in turn, must be examined by expert medical doctors who specialize in the treatment of ROP. Since the number of specialists is extremely small, it requires skill and experience to gain access to these physicians. After the consultation between a lawyer and doctor, a determination will be made whether or not there was substandard care in your child’s particular case. You will then be notified immediately after the conference by Richard Shapiro as to merit of your case.
Our lawyers have handled cases where we learned that ROP resulted from a medical mistake. We understand the frustration and stress a family faces every single day to see that special needs are accomplished promptly and professionally for a blind child.
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