When a Failure to Diagnose Illness Leads to Tragic Results
If someone in your family died or suffered a severe or permanent injury due to the failure of a physician to diagnose a medical condition in time for effective treatment, contact a knowledgeable attorney at Palmisano & Goodman in Woodbridge for a free consultation.
Call 732-634-6464 for legal advice about medical misdiagnosis
A doctor's error in the diagnosis of injury or illness makes it highly unlikely that the patient will receive the necessary treatment. By the time the physician's mistake is corrected, it might be too late.
At Palmisano & Goodman, our lawyers work not only to identify the medical errors that led to a failure to diagnose the symptoms of cancer, heart disease or stroke correctly, but also to show how the misdiagnosis resulted in actual harm to the patient.
This is not as obvious as it might sound. Even if we can prove negligent misdiagnosis, the defense will usually try to show that the patient's condition was hopeless, the cancer was inoperable, another health problem resulted in death, or other ways to confuse the causal relationship between the failure to diagnose the condition and the patient's injury.
With a 35-year record of success in complex personal injury and medical malpractice litigation, our attorneys know how to work with medical experts to develop the evidence necessary to prove both diagnosis errors and their role in the death or disability of a patient.
If you need advice about your legal options when a failure to diagnose a medical condition correctly results in serious harm, contact Palmisano & Goodman in Woodbridge, New Jersey.
