Misdiagnosis/Failure to Diagnose

Stamford, Connecticut, Medical Malpractice Lawyers

When symptoms of illness appear, patients have a limited amount of time to get proper treatment. Medical professionals must consider the patient's history, order appropriate tests and evaluate accurately in order to respond in a timely manner to save a life.

Negligence in ordering tests, errors in reading results, or the simple failure to take a patient's complaints seriously can—and does—have tragic results every day for people with cancer, heart attacks or stroke, problem pregnancies, tumors or other illnesses.

Standard medical procedures are in place to ensure that negligent medical errors don't occur. When doctors and clinics fail to live up to standards of care and fail to diagnose medical problems, patients may suffer catastrophic injuries.

At the Stamford law office of Silver Golub & Teitell, LLP, our practice is devoted to seeking justice and financial compensation for people who have been injured and families who have lost loved ones due to medical negligence. Contact us if you suspect that medical malpractice resulted in a worsening of your medical problems.

Our Approach to Misdiagnosis and Failures to Diagnose Illness

Medical malpractice lawsuits are almost always difficult and expensive, but this is particularly true with lawsuits claiming a medical misdiagnosis. Our medical malpractice attorneys thoroughly investigate the facts of the case, consulting with the most knowledgeable independent medical experts from across the nation in order to build and prove our case.

We typically see two types of cases involving misdiagnosis or failure to diagnose an illness: those in which the patient had symptoms that were not properly investigated and those who did not have symptoms but had risk factors that should have led the doctor to recommend tests.

Examples of cases we've handled include:

• Failing to order tests to identify the cause of symptoms or attributing the symptoms to a minor condition without looking for an underlying medical problem
• Failing to properly read results of a colonoscopy, a mammogram, an EKG, a CT or MRI
• Delaying the review of test results causing a delay in treatment
• Failing to recommend a biopsy on a suspicious breast lump or skin lesion
• Contaminated test results

If you suffered a worsening medical condition, or a loved one has died and you suspect that a problem with testing or a misdiagnosis was to blame, contact the medical malpractice lawyers at Silver Golub & Teitell.

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