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California Lawyers – Failure To Diagnose Claims
In hospitals and emergency rooms, patients expect to receive exemplary treatment from doctors. When a medical professional fails to recognize the signs and symptoms of a serious disease or injury, the patient will suffer. Failing to detect symptoms of cancer, thus leading to failure or delay in diagnosing the disease, can drastically limit the treatments for overcoming the disease. Mitchell Leeds, LLP is California’s premiere medical malpractice law firm. We are led by Jeff S. Mitchell, a diligent lawyer who has dedicated his legal career to malpractice claims. He will work with you through the legal process in your claim, making certain that your best interests are protected.
Mitchell Leeds, LLP can help if you or someone you love has been seriously injured due to a misdiagnosis or failure to diagnose a disease or illness. Call 415-702-9928 now for a free consultation.
Failure To Diagnose Cancer, Heart Attack And Other Diseases
The lawyers at our firm have been successful in handling a broad range of medical malpractice cases and can undertake matters involving:
- Failure to diagnose cancer
- Breast cancer, lung cancer, prostate cancer and more
- Failure to diagnose stroke
- Failure to diagnose heart attack
- Failure to diagnose brain aneurysm
- Delay in diagnosing illnesses or injuries
Medical malpractice claims present many challenges that can be difficult for an attorney to overcome. In fact, many attorneys refuse to tackle these claims because of the level of difficulty involved. When working with our firm, you have the benefit of knowing that our lawyers for Misdiagnosis Claims will strongly advocate for your best interests.
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Spotlight
What is your approach to handling failure to diagnose cases?
From Nathaniel’s interview for the Masters of the Courtroom series on ReelLawyers.com.
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we see a fair number of cases in which
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family members come to us and say boy I
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wish the doctor had been able to catch
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this sooner I wish that I had had such a
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bad outcome maybe if somebody had
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noticed sooner I would have had a better
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outcome
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the first question for us is to go and
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actually do the medical research for
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them and tell the person whether or not
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an early diagnosis would have made a
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difference in their case there are
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sometimes you know with strokes and
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things like that where if you fail to
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diagnose it early you can have a very
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bad outcome there are other cases in
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which it doesn’t make as big a
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difference so those cases tend to be
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some of the more I’d say academic cases
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are the ones we work on because we’re
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really asking is how treatable are these
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conditions and learning a lot about the
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specific conditions and the specific way
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in which the person presented
What are some reasons doctors fail to make a proper diagnosis?
From Jeff’s interview for the Masters of the Courtroom series on ReelLawyers.com.
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they at times
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um
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failure they kind of failed to walk
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through a diagnostic algorithm that
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they’re all trained to do they learn it
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very early on in their in medical school
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in their residency and fellowship
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programs I found over the years that
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that a lot of those failure to diagnose
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cases are when the physician kind of
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gets offline from that algorithm and and
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you know and there’s what this you know
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obviously it’s a medicines that aren’t
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into science but there’s a lot of
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science to it and sometimes
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um Physicians for whatever reason won’t
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run through the proper you know
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diagnostic algorithms for example and I
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always like to compare it to like
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um
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airline travel right every time a
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plane’s going to take off the Pilot’s
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check every possible system they run
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through every algorithm the computer
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systems they redundant systems they
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check everything and that’s why you see
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very few planes falling out of the sky
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uh in my opinion but in medicine you
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know sometimes those things don’t occur
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people don’t follow those diagnostic
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Pathways and that’s where we end up with
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further diagnosed cases and lawsuits and
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settlements and jury verdicts foreign
