Failure to Diagnose Lawyer in New York City

Understanding What “Failure to Diagnose” Means

Without the proper diagnosis – or without a diagnosis at all – it is impossible to properly treat any condition that is afflicting the person who has sought medical attention. Consequently, patients are totally reliant upon a doctor’s ability to identify the source of their malady and make a diagnosis accordingly.

It has been proven that early detection of an illness is the most effective way to prevent major problems. Therefore, if your doctor did not assist in the early diagnosis of your illness/disease, you might have a lawsuit on your hands.

If you or a loved one has been harmed because of a failure to diagnose, contact an NYC medical malpractice lawyer from Hecht, Kleeger & Damashek, Personal Injury Lawyers, P.C. at (212) 490-5700, or reach out through the online form.

How Your Doctor Could be to Blame for a Serious Illness

At Hecht, Kleeger & Damashek, Personal Injury Lawyers, P.C., we recognize that it is human nature to make errors. We also recognize, however, that these errors can cause serious, even life-altering, problems for the patients who are treated under a physician’s care.

Accordingly, our New York City personal injury lawyers are committed to providing effective legal representation to persons who have wrongfully suffered from a physician’s failure to diagnose their illness, even if it was simply by mistake. Some of the most common health problems with symptoms that were failed to be diagnosed include:

• Strokes
• Heart attacks
• Dissecting aneurysms
• Cancer

Injuries and illnesses that develop from symptoms that went undiagnosed under a doctor’s care are simply inexcusable. Given the strict protocols to which all practicing physicians are expected to adhere, there is no reason for a medical error of this nature to occur.

Among the many protocols designed and regulated among practicing physicians are those that directly respond to methods of making a formal diagnosis. Assuming that a doctor does not let his or her busy schedule interfere with the diagnostic process, the standards of diagnosis that have been set forth for them should prevent oversight.

Are Misdiagnoses Caused By Rare Illnesses?

Contrary to popular belief, many of the failure to diagnose cases that are presented are not connected to rare illnesses with little to no symptoms. Rather, these cases are often associated with diagnosis issues for well-known maladies, thus making the ones that could have been prevented if the proper precautions had been taken and the correct procedures had been followed.

This fact is precisely why the personal injury attorneys at our firm have included cases of failure to diagnose in our areas practice. We do not want to see individuals suffer any more than they have already been made to.

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