Failure To Diagnose

Medical malpractice can occur when a doctor or hospital fails to timely diagnose the cause of your signs, symptoms and complaints. The failure to diagnose your condition can happen when you present to a doctor or hospital for a regular checkup or during an emergency room visit, when presenting for a radiological study, after a biopsy or even during and following a surgical procedure.

You are entitled to a doctor and/or hospital practicing good and accepted medicine and following good and accepted medical standards. This means that your health care provider must carefully heed your signs, symptoms and complaints, take a full and complete social and medical history, order appropriate tests and carefully read the results of those tests, examine you carefully to see what there is to be seen and make a proper diagnosis ruling in or ruling out the likely cause of your condition, and render appropriate care and treatment.

Patients have the right to expect expert care when going to a hospital or doctor’s office. Patients expect a timely diagnosis of a medical problem along with proper treatment. The failure to diagnose a condition or the delay in diagnosing a condition can lead to serious permanent injury and even death.

At Sanocki Newman & Turret, LLP, we have represented clients who have suffered at the hands of health care providers who have failed to timely diagnose their conditions and even failed to advise them that they in fact were suffering from a serious and potentially fatal condition.

If you believe you have been the victim of medical malpractice you may be entitled to monetary compensation for physical and emotional pain, and suffering and economic losses.

For help finding out whether you are entitled to monetary compensation call Sanocki Newman & Turret, LLP, at 212-962-1190.