Misdiagnosis
What is Misdiagnosis?
Misdiagnosis is one of the most common medical mistakes, accounting for thousands of injuries and
deaths each year. Misdiagnosis occurs when a doctor or other health care provider makes a wrong
diagnosis, or needlessly delays making a diagnosis and starting treatment. Misdiagnosis may include
the failure to recognize a serious condition, failure to run certain diagnostic tests or failure to
diagnose a condition in a timely manner. Misdiagnosis may lead to a medical malpractice claim if
it causes a serious injury or death. If you have been injured due to misdiagnosis, you may have a
claim against the medical providers who treated you.
Examples of Surgical Errors:
- Failure to diagnose myocardial infarction
- Mistaking cardiac symptoms for gastrointestinal pain
- Failure to diagnose post surgical hypoxia
- Delay in treatment
- Failure to diagnose meningitis
- Failure to diagnose bowel perforation
- Failure to recognize fetal distress in labor
- Failure to recognize signs of pending stroke
- Improper treatment of diabetes
- Failure to diagnose sepsis
- Failure to recognize signs of respiratory failure
- Improper prenatal testing
- Wrong interpretation of x-rays
For additional examples of medical malpractice involving misdiagnosis that resulted in death, brain damage or catastrophic injury in cases handled by our law firm, please see Our Cases .
If you think you or a loved one has been injured as a result of misdiagnosis, contact us today. You can submit your case online, free of charge and with no obligation, through our Contact Form and we will promptly respond to you.
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