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Wrong eye drops in my eye
The nurse put the wrong drops in my eye then realized it tried to wash it
out and put the right drops in wish caused blisters due I have a case ? It
happened about 8 months ago
Asked on January 19, 2018 under Malpractice Law, Texas
Answers:
SJZ, Member, New York Bar / FreeAdvice Contributing Attorney
Answered 6 years ago | Contributor
Find out the cause of the blurring--i.e. is it linked to the eyedrops?--and the prognosis--will it get better? stay the same? get worse? Then you know if you have a case. Putting the wrong drops in could certainly have been malpractrice, or medical negligence (carelessness); however, the amount of compensation you can receive is related to the extent and duration of your injury. At the same time, malpractice cases can be expensive, because you have to pay for your own medical expert (you can't make the other side pay for it) to read your medical reports/history, examine and test you, and testify in court, and that can cost many hundreds to several thousand dollars--and that's before you consider the cost of the attorney. Blisters, unless they resulted in permanet disfigurement, would not be worth sufficient compensation to justify the cost of a malpractice case. But permanent vision impairment may well be worth suing about. So you need to know better what happened, why, and what the future prognosis will be to understand if you have a viable or worthwhile case.
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