Medical Malpractice
Greenville SC Medical Malpractice Attorney
You were severely injured by a trusted medical provider. Now you want to know what happened and why. Thomas Creech, an experienced Greenville SC medical malpractice attorney, can help you get the accountability and compensation you deserve.
Medical Malpractice Law in Greenville SC
Understand that a doctor or medical provider should never violate the standards of care.
It’s bad enough to have been harmed by a medical provider you trusted to do the job right. But now, you have injuries and pain. Your life has changed for the worse, and it may be permanent.
Accountability is essential. You can hold a negligent medical professional accountable by seeking compensation for the damage done to you.
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Important Medical Malpractice Numbers
Understanding some startling statistics underscores the importance of finding a Greenville SC medical malpractice attorney.
The number of outpatients who experience diagnostic errors every year.
Source: Institute for Healthcare Improvement
2016 study confirms more than 250K deaths per year are due to medical error.
Source: John Hopkins
Birth injuries account for 20% of the 20,000 infant deaths that occur in the U.S. every year.
Source: Cerebal Palsy Guide
Medical Malpractice Situations
Here are some situations that could require the services of a Greenville medical malpractice lawyer:
- Missed diagnosis of an illness or condition, such as cancer
- Not treating or wrongly treating a disease or condition
- Not diagnosing and treating an infection like MRSA correctly
- Surgical mistake or injury caused by a bad surgery
- Medication administration errors
- Birth injuries, including cerebral palsy
- Failure to treat blood clots, pulmonary embolism, or deep vein thromboses
- Failure to treat a ruptured appendix
- Failure to treat sepsis in a patient
- Failure to treat Compartment Syndrome, leading to amputation
- Failure to treat or control high blood pressure causing stroke or brain injury
- Injury during gall bladder removal surgery
- Foreign objects left in a patient after surgery
Additionally, nurses and other hospital staff must be held accountable for their mistakes. Some common nursing and hospital staff negligence include:
- Patient falls – Nurses or hospital staff failing to prevent a patient from falling due to improper patient supervision or monitoring
- Pressure sores or wounds
- Incorrect medication administration
- Failure to follow a doctor’s orders in patient care
- Failure to properly supervise or watch over a patient
Greenville Medical Malpractice Case Experience
When hiring a medical malpractice attorney in Greenville South Carolina it is important to consider their medical malpractice experience when handling your case.
Medical malpractice is a core practice area for us. Greenville SC medical malpractice attorney Thomas Creech began representing patients and their families in medical malpractice cases over 20 years ago.
He’s represented clients in well over 100 medical malpractice cases, including:
- Medical malpractice causing wrongful death of the patient
- Birth injury cases during labor and delivery involving hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy to an infant
- Failure to recognize bowel obstruction in a hospitalized patient
- Failure to treat high blood pressure leading to stroke in a patient
- Failing to treat compartment syndrome in a patient leading to amputation
- Failing to treat an infection in a patient leads to amputation
- Leaving behind retained gauze after a surgical
- procedure in a patient
- Injury to bile duct during gallbladder removal surgery
- Many other cases, as well
Why Medical Malpractice Attorney Greenville SC Case Experience Counts
Investigating your medical malpractice case is extremely important and often requires the firm to hire expert witnesses. With his Greenville medical malpractice experience, Thomas Creech can locate and select the necessary and effective medical experts to prove your potential case. Those experts are usually out-of-state experts.
We aim to hire the most highly qualified experts to prove your case. Under South Carolina law, a medical expert is required in most medical malpractice cases before the case can even be filed and go forward.
Thomas Creech also has actual jury trial experience in medical malpractice cases in the Upstate of South Carolina. He’s also filed, litigated, and settled many other malpractice cases out of court.
Thomas Creech has been recognized by the highly respected The Best Lawyers in America publication in the practice areas for Medical Malpractice Law – Plaintiffs and Personal Injury Litigation – Plaintiffs for 2024 and just recently again for 2025.
Thomas Creech has represented clients in cases against many upstate South Carolina medical providers and healthcare facilities, including Prisma Upstate, Bon Secours St Francis, Spartanburg Regional Health System, and the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston as well.
With our extensive experience, we believe that we can quickly and efficiently advise you whether you may have a medical malpractice case. After investigation, once we believe that you have a case, we will pursuit it vigorously on your behalf.
Birth Injury Case Experience
We represent children and families in birth injury cases where providers fail to recognize the child was struggling during labor and deprived of oxygen, which can lead to an extremely harmful brain injury known as cerebral palsy.
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Questions to Ask a Greenville Medical Malpractice Lawyer
With our experience, we can evaluate medical negligence cases quickly and give answers to questions like these sooner rather than later.
- Do I have a case?
- What is my case worth
- How long is it going to take?
- What will the costs in fees and case expenses be?
- What should I do before responding to a medical provider’s insurance company?
Our experience allows us to answer these questions accurately and confidently with legal advice, counsel, and advocacy.
How to find a Medical Malpractice Attorney Near Me
Our offices are conveniently located off of I-385 in Greenville close to Haywood Mall, Bon Secours St. Francis Eastside Hospital, Prisma Patewood Hospital. Our Orchard Park location offers ample free parking so you don’t need to search for a parking space in downtown Greenville.
Greenville Medical Malpractice Lawyer Fees & Case Costs
We offer free consultations in addition to a contigency-based fee structure.
In medical malpractice cases, my firm charges attorney’s fees contingent upon there being a financial recovery in your case, whether by jury verdict or settlement. Thus, there is no attorney fee if there is no financial recovery.
Medical malpractice cases also involve case costs such as court filing fees, costs of expert witnesses, and other costs. To learn more about how we handle case costs, contact us to schedule a free consultation.