Misdiagnosis

Medical Misdiagnosis, Failure to Diagnose:

Cancer · Stroke · Heart Attack · Diabetes

If a doctor fails to timely diagnose a medical condition such as cancer, stroke, cardiac disease, or appendicitis because of carelessness or a failure to order appropriate tests, and as a result the patient is not treated until permanent harm, possibly death results, it is a tragic example of medical negligence, where treatment would have prevented the bad outcome. The victim, or in the case of a fatal error, the victim's family, is entitled to damages for the loss.

If you have suffered serious injury or lost a loved one because of a delay in treatment or failure to treat a curable illness, contact our firm in Milford to discuss medical misdiagnosis. A lawyer with experience in failure-to-diagnose cases will be happy to provide a free consultation and case evaluation.

Medical malpractice insurance providers regularly present injured patients and their families with unreasonably low settlement offers. During the difficult period of emotional and medical recovery following a serious illness or death, it is unwise to sign any insurance form or make a statement to your physician's representative without first seeking legal advice form a well-qualified medical malpractice attorney.

Cases in which our firm's personal injury attorneys have successfully recovered or are pursuing damages for our clients include the following:

• A young man's physician failed to diagnoses renal artery stenosis as the cause of his hypertension. As a result the patient lost a kidney.
• A woman who underwent routine reconstructive surgery developed a MRSA infection. The physician's failure to order a bacteria culture and the resulting delay in appropriate treatment resulted in a long illness and permanent deformity. A jury awarded her a six-figure verdict.
• A patient's death caused by an undiagnosed bowel obstruction.
• A young woman went in to the hospital to have a baby, but after birth, the doctor failed to diagnose placenta accreta, a condition where the placenta fails to separate from the wall of the uterus. The necessary dilation and curettage (D and C) was not performed in a timely manner and the woman suffered a serious infection and Asherman’s syndrome, which severely diminished her ability to have another child.

We are prepared to handle claims for serious injury or wrongful death resulting from failure to diagnose, in a timely manner, treatable conditions including:

• cancer: cervical, ovarian, lung, prostate, breast, testicular, colon and rectum, urinary bladder, Hodgkin lymphoma, non-Hodgkin lymphoma, melanomas of the skin, kidney and renal pelvis, pancreas, thyroid, stomach, brain, multiple myeloma, esophagus, liver and intraheptic bile duct, larynx, acute myeloid leukemia, soft tissue including heart, GIST (gastr0-intestinal stromal tumors)
• heart attack (acute myocardial infarction), stroke, pulmonary embolism
• methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infection, tuberculosis, bacterial meningitis
• diabetes, bowel obstruction, kidney disease
• the need for a cesarean section childbirth

For more information about medical malpractice, wrongful death, and personal injury claims, we have provided the following resources:

• Frequently asked questions on personal injury and wrongful death
• Medical Malpractice Information Center
• Personal Injury and Wrongful Death Newsletters