Failure to Diagnose - Wrongful Diagnosis

Failure to Diagnose - Wrongful Diagnosis

Although protocol and rules designed to standardize treatment can be set, the nature of medicine depends on doctors using their best professional judgment. The American Medical Association sets standards and bar exams precisely to ensure that a person making medical decisions is fit to make such decisions.
The quality of treatment received can differ from doctor to doctor, but in some instances, a doctor completely fails to use reasonable judgment, or respond to a situation in a manner that a reasonable medical professional would. This could be due to carelessness, failure to secure a complete medical history from a patient, disregard for certain pain or symptoms, stress or bias, or even lack of appropriate knowledge and experience.
These types of errors should not happen. However, by bringing attention to acts of medical malpractice through personal injury lawsuits, ordinary citizens can help highlight dangerous oversights in the medical community and let this field know that negligent and carelessness will not go unnoticed.
There are many medical conditions that commonly do undiagnosed or misdiagnosed by medical professionals. Some of these include:

• Pulmonary Embolism
• Drug reactions or overdoses
• Lung cancer
• Colorectal cancer
• Acute coronary syndrome
• Breast cancer
• Stroke

Knowing the types of errors most commonly made can help you better discover an incorrect diagnosis and ask your physician to double check his evaluation. The impact of an incorrect diagnosis can be severe and life altering. If you or someone you know has been incorrectly diagnosed and treated, you should seek medical help immediately from a different physician so that you can make sure that any medical problems you do have are addressed as quickly as possible.