Mistakes in Diagnosis: Medical Malpractice
A failure to diagnose or a misdiagnosis can waste precious time that could have been used to treat an illness. At worst, failure to diagnose can lead to a patient's wrongful death from medical malpractice.
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At Brindisi, Murad, Brindisi, Pearlman, Julian & Pertz in upstate New York, our medical malpractice lawyers have the experience, the financial resources and the access to appropriate medical experts to investigate and litigate medical negligence cases such as a failure to diagnose or a misdiagnosis.
- Doctors regularly fail to diagnose heart disease in women, because women have different symptoms from men. Failure to diagnose can mean failure to treat a life-threatening condition.
- With the increasing reliance on physicians assistants (PAs) and nursing assistants (NAs), there is the danger that symptoms may not be communicated to a doctor.
- Doctors and radiologists may fail to diagnose cancer. Delayed treatment can be deadly for someone with breast cancer, prostate cancer, skin cancer, colon cancer, cervical cancer and other types of cancer.
- Many doctors simply do not look for cancers in children and often fail to diagnose cancer.
- Failure to diagnose diabetes means no treatment and no monitoring of the disease.
If a doctor failed to diagnose a disease, if that failure caused increased risk or even death, contact an attorney experienced with medical malpractice cases. The consultation is free.
