One of the keys to receiving the medical treatment you need in a timely manner is getting the proper tests and having those tests read accurately. This includes X-rays, MRIs, CT scans and ultrasounds as well as tests like mammograms, EKGs, angiograms, biopsies and...
Failure To Diagnose
What can patients do to avoid a misdiagnosis?
A failure to diagnose an ailment correctly puts the patient's life and health at great risk. While no one is infallible, medical personnel have a duty to practice medicine in as safe a manner as possible. This means remaining up-to-date with illnesses, conditions,...
My doctor didn’t order a biopsy. Should he or she have?
The first step in successfully treating a patient for cancer or other serious illnesses is acquiring a correct diagnosis. In most cases, patients can trust their physicians to take all steps necessary to acquire this diagnosis and then create an appropriate treatment...
Tort reform stories in the media often reported without context
Several of our recent posts have been focused on the debate over "tort reform," specifically as it applies to medical malpractice lawsuits. The common argument made by tort reform proponents was that doctors were ordering expensive and unnecessary tests because they...
Failure to diagnose cancer quickly enough
When it comes to cancer, time is often of the essence, as it is a disease that spreads--slowly, in some cases, but very quickly in others--from one part of the body to the next. For example, cancer could start in the lymph nodes of the neck, but, if untreated, it...
Failure to diagnose early signs of stroke a common problem
For serious medical problems, timely treatment has perhaps the greatest effect on patient outcomes. If detected and treated as early as possible, several of the most common killers - heart attack, stroke and cancer - are survivable. But misdiagnosis and failure to...
Failure to diagnose proper illness leads to death of young girl
New Jersey residents may be familiar with case of a young girl who passed away because of a failure to diagnose properly. The family of the young girl claims that the doctor diagnosed the child with flu when she actually had pneumonia. The failure to diagnose the...
Upgraded brain scans could improve brain injury diagnoses
Head injuries have been front and center in the collective American mindset for several years now, with media accounts of traumatic brain injury -- including, centrally, concussions --- regularly featuring in stories concerning head trauma suffered by people engaged...
Doctors’ failure to diagnose breast cancer may cost woman’s life
When you go to a doctor about a medical concern, you expect to be told the truth, not given a comforting half-truth. In the case of a woman now facing the probability of premature death, however, that was apparently the mistake by her radiologist and gynecologist.When...
Researchers: Scans for pulmonary embolisms a double-edged sword
"Why are you ordering that CT scan?"That is a question that literally millions of Americans might want to be rehearsing when the recommendation is made in a New Jersey medical office or elsewhere across the country, especially when the recommendationrelates to a...
