Failure to Diagnose Serious Medical Conditions
All of us have at some point relied on and trusted the skills, education, and experience of a physician to diagnose and treat an illness or injury. Most of the time this trust is well placed.
But occasionally, mistakes are made: a set of symptoms is overlooked, an x- ray is misread, or the physician is too busy to take the time to listen. Incidents like these can result in disastrous delays in treatment. If you believe that you or a loved one has been injured through a failure to properly diagnose or treat an illness or injury, perhaps we can help. Please call our lawyers who handle cases involving failure to diagnose serious medical conditions at 1.800.553.9910. You can also send them an e-mail by clicking on this link: contact us.
Selected Case Reports from Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi L.L.P. Lawyers Handling "Failure to Diagnose Serious Medical Conditions" Cases*
(Excerpts taken with permission from Minnesota Trial Lawyer Association’s (MTLA) “Minnesota Case Reports”)
- Negligent failure to appropriately interpret CAT Scan (CT) results in permanent disabling, neurological injuries in a 50-year old wife, mother and grandmother. (Read more)
(Excerpts taken with permission from Minnesota Association for Justice's “Minnesota Case Reports”)
Failure to diagnose mononucleosis (EVB) results in unnecessary surgery and death of a 15- year-old girl.
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(Excerpts taken with permission from Minnesota Trial Lawyer Association’s (MTLA) “Minnesota Case Reports”)
- Failure to diagnose and treat volvulus (twisting of the colon) in a timely manner in 62-year-old woman resulting in colostomy, multiple surgical procedures for ongoing infections and obstructions and permanent and severe disability. (Read more)
(Excerpts taken with permission from Minnesota Trial Lawyer Association’s (MTLA) “Minnesota Case Reports”)
- Failure to diagnose and treat signs and symptoms of peripartum cardiomyopathy (disease of the heart, not related to any other previous heart condition or problem, usually developing within the last month of pregnancy) resulting in pregnant, 33-year-old woman suffering cardiac arrest (heart attack) at defendant hospital during the emergency cesarean section delivery of her first child. (Read More)
(Excerpts taken with permission from Minnesota Trial Lawyer Association’s (MTLA) “Minnesota Case Reports”)
Failure to timely diagnose colonic changes leads to metastatic colon cancer and death in Wisconsin farmer.
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(Excerpts taken with permission from Minnesota Trial Lawyer Association’s (MTLA) “Minnesota Case Reports”)
- Failure to diagnose and treat idiopathic cardiomyopathy (deterioration of the cardiac muscle of the heart wall) results in heart transplant. (Read more)
Settlement: | $2,000,000 (policy limits) |
| Case Name: | M.E. v. Internist |
| Date: | May, 2007 |
| Attorneys: | John F. Eisberg |
(Excerpts taken with permission from Minnesota Trial Lawyer Association’s (MTLA) “Minnesota Case Reports”)
Failure to diagnose case against a pediatrician for failure to give certain genetic testing when it was ordered and where the infant was born with a severe genetic disorder called Fragile X.
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(Excerpts taken with permission from Minnesota Trial Lawyer Association’s (MTLA) “Minnesota Case Reports”)
- Failure to properly diagnose, assess, and treat cerebral aneurysm (the dilation, bulging, or ballooning out of part of the wall of a vein or artery in the brain) resulting in multiple complications of brain hemorrhage, including post-operative cerebral vasospasms (sudden constriction of a blood vessel, causing a reduction in blood flow), causing strokes and left sided paralysis and permanent neurological injuries (Read more)
(Excerpts taken with permission from Minnesota Ass'n for Justice's “Minnesota Case Reports”) - Negligent failure to respond to increasing signs of neurovascular compromise in the lower extremity of plaintiff over a sixteen-hour period after surgery for repair of tibial plateau fracture of the right leg.
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(Excerpts taken with permission from Minnesota Trial Lawyer Association’s (MTLA) “Minnesota Case Reports”)
- Failure to diagnose and treat atherosclerotic heart disease and myocardial infraction (heart attack) resulting in death of 55-year-old man during surgery for severe spinal cord and other injuries. (Read more)
(Excerpts taken with permission from Minnesota Trial Lawyer Association’s (MTLA) “Minnesota Case Reports”) Failure to obtain timely surgical consultation, evaluation and treatment of abdominal aortic aneurysm resulting in death of 69-year-old mother of five adult children.
(Read more)Settlement: | $256,166 minus 20% contrib. negligence |
| Case Name: | G. F. as trustee for the next-of-kin of B.F., deceased vs. R.H.H., M.D. |
| Date: | August, 2004 |
| Attorneys: | Wendy J. Zeller |
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