Diagnosis Malpractice

The most basic duty that any doctor has is to listen and pay attention to you. If they don't listen, and don't take the time to perform a thorough examination, they will never get the information they need to actually help you. A doctor who doesn't listen to your symptoms of chest pain isn't going...

In analyzing whether you have a good medical malpractice case, we’ll look at three issues: 1. Did the Doctor Make an Inexcusable Mistake? It is not enough in a medical malpractice case to prove that a doctor made a mistake. Some mistakes are excusable and are not medical malpractice. For example,...

Wernicke’s Encephalopathy Misdiagnosis Causes Severe Injuries and Death More than 100,000 weight-loss procedures are performed annually in the United States alone, and numbers are rising. Although these “bariatric” surgeries are lucrative for the doctors who perform weight loss surgery and are...

Every year there are advances in diagnosing and treating diseases and injuries. For example, there have been dramatic improvements in methods of treating cancer and diagnosing cancer. While cancer misdiagnosis cases are particularly tragic, our team has been handling more and more misdiagnosis...

Many Victims--But Very Few Malpractice Suits. Why? Study after study--by the National Academy of Science’s Institute of Medicine, the National Institute of Health, major medical schools and others, has conclude that hundreds of thousands of people die every year in this country because of medical...