Medical Malpractice and Failure to Diagnose
Chicago Medical Malpractice Attorney
Misdiagnoses and failure to diagnose are the reasons cited for a majority of medical malpractice occurrences, including emergency room lawsuits. If you believe you, or a family member, suffered serious injuries or a worsening of your medical condition because of a failure to diagnose, I’m a lawyer who can help you find financial recovery. Contact my office for a free initial consultation.
Misdiagnoses and failure to diagnose can have both immediate and long-term health impacts, as you can see in the cases described below. Prompt treatment may be essential to a patient’s survival, as is the case with heart attacks and strokes, some forms of cancer, and certainly with pregnancy and childbirth problems.
Unfortunately, when doctors, pathologists, and other medical professionals make incorrect diagnostic decisions—when they make assumptions rather than seek certainty—patients suffer. Some patients will die.
Our medical system of health insurance companies and HMOs can contribute to this reckless negligence. When HMOs and managed care programs disapprove diagnostic procedures and treatment options, in a form of health care rationing, doctors are prevented from taking responsible precautions.
I both investigate your case personally and consult with medical experts to understand the medical diagnostic procedures that would be the standard of care, given the symptoms you presented indicating:
Settlement: $1.95 million
My client was the family of a man who died due to misdiagnoses and consequent mistreatment of his serious medical condition. He arrived in the emergency room of a major university hospital complaining of pain. He had severe pancreatitis, but was admitted on a non-critical basis. The next morning he was found dead.
Settlement: $800,000
My client was the father of two children. He had had a mole surgically removed from his neck 7 years before he came to me. It fit the description of cancer: changed color, ragged edges. The pathologist who looked at the biopsy said it was not cancer. Years later a mole reappeared in the same location. My client went to the doctor, who again removed it and sent it to a pathologist for review. This time it was correctly diagnosed as skin cancer (melanoma). The new pathologist reviewed the old slide and determined it had also been cancerous. Because the pathologist failed to diagnose the cancer, and the physician did not remove an additional 2 centimeters of skin around the initial mole, my client had a recurrence of cancer, which spread to his brain and led to his premature death.
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Call my Chicago medical malpractice office to schedule a free consultation if you have suffered additional injury, or if a loved one has died from lack of treatment due to a failure to diagnose.
Lawyer Marion Morawicz provides legal services to injured people throughout the Chicagoland area, including Cook, Lake, DeKalb, McHenry, Kane, Winnebago, Kendall and Will Counties, and cities of Chicago, Rockford, Waukegan, Palatine, Crystal Lake, Oak Brook, Bedford Park, Bolingbrook, Romeoville, Naperville, Aurora, Wheaton, Schaumburg, Elgin, Batavia, Barrington Hills, Lake Forest, Winnetka, Evanston, Arlington Heights, and Lincolnwood.
