 Lawyer's Story
My name is Ray
Alexander, for over 20 years my legal career has
almost exclusively been in the area of medical
malpractice. I’ve been honored to be selected as a
member of “The Million Dollar Advocate’s Forum”
a group of attorneys who have been recognized as
successful in the area of medical malpractice. Much
of my experience has been in the area of malpractice
involving children, as the father of two; I’ve
always been interested in protecting the rights of
children who so often can’t really look out for
themselves. An area that I’m particularly
interested in is failure to diagnose meningitis
cases. Nothing is sadder than to see a child
permanently injured by bacterial meningitis which
should be a very treatable disease. A child who, but
for, a “bad” doctor would be happy and healthy
instead of impaired.
The key to treating
meningitis is making a proper diagnoses quickly and
getting the child on the proper antibiotics
immediately. Meningitis can kill a child within 24
hours if left untreated, speed is everything. The
disease has two basic forms, viral which is
relatively harmless and bacterial which is deadly.
The disease is an infection of the fluid in the
spinal cord and the area surrounding the brain. It
is most common and most dangerous when it strikes
infants and young children.
The critical factor
in proper treatment of meningitis is getting a
timely sample of spinal fluid and culturing it to
determine if the child is infected. Doctors often
mistake the disease for common flu and fail to make
the proper diagnosis until it’s too late. Every
year in America almost 500 people, mostly children,
die from meningitis. Those that survive can suffer
brain damage, coma, hearing loss, mental
retardation, paralysis and seizures.
As you can see the
failure to diagnose and properly treat bacterial
meningitis is deadly serious. If your child has had
meningitis and you have any questions I’d like to
help, Please click here.
Brown & Crouppen can help you make informed
decisions about your legal rights, so please call
Brown & Crouppen at
1-800-536-HELP for your free legal
consultation or save time with our online
Contact Form.
 One of the things
people are wrong about in medical malpractice cases
is the belief that it’s impossible to find a
doctor who will be willing to come forward and help
you sue another doctor. Today, the medical
profession has changed; good doctors want to help
rid their profession of bad ones. At Brown and
Crouppen we usually have no problem finding a
qualified expert who will come forward when we
present them with a meritorious case of medical
malpractice.
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