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My name’s Gary Burger. I’m a lawyer of Burger Law. I’ve been honored to represent the family of suicide victims in medical malpractice cases in the past, and we have cases
currently involved in this. Suicide, it’s a tragedy. It affects thousands of Americans every year. Nearly every family
in America knows someone or has a friend or family member who’s been affected by suicide. Sad, sad thing, it’s sad all
the way around.
When mental health professionals are involved in the care of a patient, and they don’t perform an adequate suicide
assessment and document in their notes and take actions to counsel against suicide, prevent against suicide, diagnosed
the co-morbid conditions with suicide like psychosis, anxiety, drug addiction that can contribute to the decision to do
suicide, not listen to calls for help, not assess whether someone has a plan or an imminent plan or an imminent desire
to do that, take action, don’t do contracts for prevention, don’t admit folks in the hospitals, don’t talk about a
holistic way to manage the sad condition of depression, don’t properly administer drugs, don’t properly monitor drugs,
prescribe too many drugs that affect each other and lose the efficacy of the drugs.
When those things happen, sometimes the medical professionals are at fault for contributing to that death and we’ve been
very successful in claims for that. Sometimes they’ll admit them to hospitals where adequate suicide watches aren’t
done. If you are on a Q15 suicide watch and a Q30 self-harm check and you’re not being checked that much, we had a
malpractice claim exactly like that against a local hospital where our client is dead for five hours
before she was found with a rigor setting and blue lips, and she was supposed to have been checked every 15 minutes.
So, if you have a malpractice or wrongful
death case and you have questions about the adequacy of care that your loved one received,
please call me. We’ll discuss these claims confidentially, and I’ll be able to quickly assess those, and we have the
experts and resources that are at our disposal to evaluate and quickly turn around your case, let you know whether we
think you have a case. If you have a question about the medical malpractice lawyers at Burger Law, my
name’s Gary Burger. I’m at 314-542-2222, [email protected] or you can visit our website and contact us through that at
www.burgerlaw.com. Thank you.
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Gary Burger has dedicated his career to standing up against bullies. The founder and principal attorney of Burger Law | St. Louis Personal Injury Lawyer has helped hundreds of Missouri and Illinois individuals and families recover th …
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Location: St. Louis, MO
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This page has been written, edited, and reviewed by a team of legal writers following our comprehensive editorial guidelines. This page was approved by Founding Partner, Gary Burger who has more than 30 years of legal experience as a practicing personal injury trial attorney. Gary’s robust legal knowledge is recognized by his peers as demonstrated by his industry awards and frequent Continuing Legal Education (CLE) lectures.
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