New York State Medical Malpractice Laws for Misdiagnosis
Practicing doctors in New York may be guilty of misdiagnosis every now and then. Many disease conditions such as cancer, lung disorders, tuberculosis, stroke, or acute bacterial infections are hard to diagnose because the symptoms commonly associated with these diseases may also be present in other medical conditions.
Failure to Diagnose a Stroke can have a Disabling Impact on the Patient
What is a Stroke?
Failure to Diagnose Brain Aneurysm can have Fatal or Permanently Disabling Consequences
Brain Aneurysm
Your Physician needs to Run the Right Diagnostics to Detect and Treat a Heart Attack
Characteristics of a Heart Attack
Failure to Diagnose a Heart Attack as the Basis of a Medical Malpractice Case
Failure to recognize a heart attack has significant and dramatic implications for the patient. A heart attack can occur and kill a sizeable portion of your heart. If the attack is not recognized before it happens, or at the time it is happening, the results could be devastating, and is a strong reason for filing a medical malpractice case.
Failure to Diagnose in a Medical Malpractice Case
Failure to diagnose a serious condition can be a basis for medical malpractice lawsuit, as the doctor has failed to provide the basic standard of care to the patient. To take an actual example, a person goes to his primary doctor, as he is suffering from significant pain in his left shoulder. The doctor performs a checkup and tells the patient he is fine.
What Does A Failure To Diagnose A Heart Attack Entail?
There is nothing more traumatic for a patient and their family, to have a make a trip to a hospital for medical reasons that you cannot understand. Almost all the time, health care practitioners, doctors, and nurses make the right decision in the treatment of a patient. In this life and death situation, this could actually mean saving a patient’s life. Many life threatening situations such as heart attacks come with their own set of signs and symptoms.
