Recovering Damages for Misdiagnosis of Serious Illness

Advances in medical technology have given doctors great opportunities to diagnose and treat conditions that simply weren't available in the past. Notwithstanding these advances, many treatable and curable conditions are missed, often with devastating, even deadly consequences. Diagnostic errors include:

• Failure to pay attention to the patient's complaints
• Failure to order diagnostic tests, including x-rays, CT scans, MRI's, mammograms, ultrasound, blood work, and biopsies
• Failure to interpret test or lab results correctly
• Failure to refer the patient to the appropriate specialist given known symptoms or conditions
• Failure to rule out foreseeable diseases such as cancer, heart disease, stroke or infection

Misdiagnosis can occur in a doctor's office, a dentist's chair, an emergency room, a radiology lab, a delivery room, a postoperative recovery ward, or anywhere medical care is rendered.

If you think a diagnosis was missed or delayed, or that the health care professional you consulted failed to do all that was necessary to evaluate your condition, contact our firm. We'll get the answers to which you are entitled.