I am so sorry to hear about your amputation. As an amputee as well as a personal injury attorney, I can understand the physical and emotional issues that an amputation can cause.
In some cases, an amputee may be able to sue a doctor for medical malpractice for issues related to the amputation. Most medical malpractice cases hinge on whether or not a health care professional was negligent in treating or failing to treat a patient. Medical malpractice cases are always evaluated by the medical standard of care that is applied in the specific medical treatment setting in which the patient was treated. Therefore, in order to determine whether or not your doctor was negligent, you should look at the treatment that other doctors practicing in the same community and same medical field would have provided.
In your situation, to determine whether or not your doctor may have committed medical malpractice in failing to save your limb by using oxygen therapy, you will have to evaluate whether other doctors in your area would have used oxygen therapy to save your limb. It’s likely, although you will want to speak to an attorney, that oxygen therapy would be considered as an experimental treatment, and would not be part of a standard treatment for most doctors in the area.
If you have had an amputation, and you believe your doctor may have committed medical malpractice, you should speak to an attorney as soon as possible. Call me, Conal Doyle, Amputation Attorney, at 310-385-0567. I can help. Call today to learn more or to schedule your free consultation.