NY Failure to diagnose attorney

Medical Malpractice Lawyer NY

Doctors are human and therefore, they make mistakes. However, when your health is on the line, mistakes may be costly.

When that mistake places your life in jeopardy, do not suffer in silence. If you or a loved one’s well-being has been placed in jeopardy due to the negligence of your physician by failing to diagnose, Koenig Pierre will assist you through the process of pursuing and succeeding in your legal action. Call today to learn whether you have a viable medical malpractice case.

What constitutes a failure to diagnose

In a lawsuit involving negligence by a medical practitioner, a medical malpractice lawyer can pursue the following diagnostic errors:

Failure to diagnose – the treating physician fails to determine the relationship between your symptoms and a known medical condition. As a result, no course of treatment is taken and your suffering continues.
Misdiagnosis – the doctor recognizes the symptoms but erroneously makes a connection to the wrong medical condition. Therefore, the subsequent course of treatment is ineffective.
Delayed diagnosis – occurs when the treating doctor does not connect the dots between the patient’s symptoms and a medical condition quick enough to take an effective course of treatment.

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How to establish a failure to diagnose?

In order to succeed in your medical malpractice lawsuit, the following elements must be proven:

The existence of a doctor-patient relationship – a doctor has a legal duty to diagnose and treat their patients in accordance with generally accepted standards within the medical community
Breach of the doctor-patient relationship: By making an error in diagnosing a patient or failing to diagnose a patient, a doctor breaches the doctor-patient relationship
Injury: The patient must suffer harm or injury which may include an exacerbation of a preexisting condition or the onset of an additional medical condition.
Causation: it must be proven that the injury suffered was a result of the doctor’s negligence or wrongdoing.

Common examples of diagnostic failures

Diagnostic failures may include the following:

In assessing risk factors, a doctor fails to ask about a patient’s medical history or personal habits
The doctor fails to understand the significance and fails to institute the proper treatment plan, order the correct tests for the medical condition the patient is experiencing.
The doctor orders the correct tests, such as an MRI, however, the doctor misinterprets the results of the studies.

The failure of a treating doctor to provide their patient the proper medical care can result in an exacerbation of the underlying condition, lead to new medical conditions or even prove fatal. Any of these resulting injuries are reasons for a medical malpractice lawsuit

If a doctor’s treatment has resulted in an injury or a worsening of your condition, call a New York failure to diagnose lawyer today!

Koenig Pierre, a New York medical malpractice lawyer, will work with a team of attorneys and guide you through the process of achieving the best results for your medical malpractice. Call Koenig today and let’s begin the process of working on your case.

Apart from medical malpractice, Koenig Pierre will also handle personal injury cases that involve slip and fall injuries, car accidents, truck accidents, elder abuse, dog bites, construction accidents, bicycle accidents, wrongful death and other work-related injuries.

Koenig Pierre is committed to serving every client with personalized attention, compassionate customer service, and professionalism. Before you get carried away, call him today!

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