For New York City and all over the United States most of us tend to trust our doctors. And for good reason after all, they’re the experts in their respective medical fields. Even though New York has some of the best doctors in the world, even they can make a mistake too. And these mistakes can be a lack of treatment or the wrong treatment all together. If you have a failure to diagnose cancer case in New York, NY it can be very confusing trying to figure it all out. Below we have a general overview on erroneous medical misdiagnoses that cover failure to diagnose cancer cases in New York, NY.
Medical Misdiagnosis Generally
In most cases for New York, NY, if a delay or failure to diagnose a disease has resulted in injury or disease progression above and beyond that which would have resulted from a timely diagnosis, specific medical professionals could be held liable. Most doctors are well trained to think and act by establishing a “differential diagnosis.” When performed a Doctor will list, in descending order of probability, his or her impressions or “differing” diagnoses of possible causes for a patient’s presenting symptoms.
The key question in assessing a misdiagnosis for malpractice is to ask what diagnoses a reasonably prudent doctor, under similar circumstances, would have considered as potential causes for the patient’s symptoms. If a doctor failed to consider the patient’s true diagnosis on his/her differential diagnosis list, or listed it but failed to rule it out with additional tests or criteria, then the doctor is likely able to be sued for medical malpractice.
Many times without the assistance of an experienced New York law firm, this situation may be difficult to prove in a courtroom. For example, a patient may allege that a doctor failed to timely diagnose a certain cancer, resulting in “metastasis” (spread of the cancer to other organs or tissues).
But the Doctors experts may testify that “micrometastasis” (spreading of the disease at the cellular level) may have occurred as much as ten years before a first tumor was diagnosed, and cancerous cells may have already traveled in the bloodstream and lodged elsewhere, eventually to grow into new tumors. Therefore, it may be difficult in some cases to establish that a patient has suffered a worse prognosis because of the failure or delay in diagnosis.
Getting Legal Help with Failure to Diagnose Cancer Cases:
For all of these reasons above this is why you need an expert lawyer skilled in handling failure to diagnose cancer cases in New York, NY.
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