As a patient, you may rely on your treating physician to validate the physical health symptoms you are experiencing and connect them to a specific ailment you have contracted or your body is slowly developing. So it can be devastating when your physician dismisses the oddities you feel as nothing. Or, if they are completely off with their medical evaluations and interpret your condition as a totally different disease state. Well, if you have experienced either of these cases, please continue reading to learn the consequences of your doctor failing to diagnose your serious health condition and how one of the seasoned Monmouth County medical malpractice attorneys at Wilton Law Firm can help you recover from this catastrophic mishap physically, emotionally, and financially.
Not only is receiving an incorrect or delayed diagnosis extremely frustrating, but it is also quite dangerous for your physical health. That is, for a delayed diagnosis, your health condition may worsen significantly before you start receiving the right medical treatment. At this point, your once manageable and curable ailment may now be life-altering, life-threatening, or life-ending.
As far as a misdiagnosis goes, you may be driven to undergo incorrect medical treatments, including medications, therapies, and even surgical procedures. Not only may this make your undiagnosed condition worse, but it may also create new health problems. For example, you may take antibiotics for a viral infection that does not exist, which may come with its fair share of serious side effects.
It can be argued that not every delayed diagnosis or misdiagnosis is considered an act of medical malpractice. It is possible that your health condition is extremely difficult to detect, given extenuating factors such as its display of non-specific or overlapping symptoms, its rarity, and the lack of advanced diagnostic criteria or technology for it.
Therefore, to bring forward a successful medical malpractice claim against your treating physician, you must satisfy your burden of proof and establish that they failed to meet the standard of care. Specifically, this means that your physician had or should have reasonably had all the information about your experienced symptoms, your medical test results, etc., to make the correct diagnosis, but failed to do so promptly or entirely.
And so, in your case proceedings, your retained attorney and hired medical experts may compare your treating physician’s actions with what a competent physician in the same specialty would have acted under similar circumstances. They may present valid points such as medical industry norms, teachings in standard medical training, widely accepted diagnostic procedures across the country, and much more.
We strongly urge you to call our office and schedule your initial consultation with us at your earliest possible convenience. One of the skilled Monmouth County personal injury attorneys at Wilton Law Firm is ready and willing to hear you out and take on your legal case.
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