When there is something wrong with you, you depend on your doctor to determine the cause of your unpleasant symptoms and help you get the right treatment. The diagnostic process might involve multiple kinds of tests, such as blood tests, biopsies or even imaging...
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Failure To Diagnose & Misdiagnosis
How a doctor’s hidden biases can impact your medical care
Doctors are highly educated and licensed professionals who understand the human body well enough to determine the cause of symptoms that people experience. They have the knowledge and skills to treat traumatic injuries, perform operations recommend medicines....
Commonly misdiagnosed medical conditions
People in Massachusetts should know the truth about medical malpractice. It's not as rare as they'd hope. In fact, most people will be misdiagnosed at least once in their lives. Now, not all of these cases are the result of negligence. Sometimes many conditions share...
Gout patients liable to be misdiagnosed
If you're a resident of Boston or Newton and you believe you were the victim of medical malpractice, then you have the right to seek compensation. Medical conditions are prone to misdiagnosis, and one of the most prominent of them is gout. This type of inflammatory...
4 common questions about misdiagnosis
Many of us dread going to the doctor. It's normal to be hesitant about placing your health in the hands of someone else - especially when you're undergoing risky procedures such as surgery. You have to trust that the doctor, nurses and other medical professionals will...
Rare cancer misdiagnosis leads to chemotherapy, hysterectomy
Picture going through months of chemotherapy – even having a life-alerting surgery – all to treat the cancer that you did not really have? It’s a hard image to even process, but it’s a reality that some women are going through. ABC News recently published an article...
Five tips for choosing your first doctor
It's a question most people will encounter at some point: How do I choose a doctor? Ask a friend? Choose the clinic closest to my house? Google indiscriminately and hope for the best? It's not an easy question to answer, especially for young, healthy people who are...
Electronic health records can lead to problems with health care
Medical malpractice issues can stem from a host of issues. One issue that is sometimes blamed is the use of electronic health records. These records are sometimes incomplete or don't contain accurate information. That can lead to patients receiving an incorrect...
Undiagnosed and misdiagnosed cancer can lead to misery
A person who is diagnosed with any form of cancer is likely ready to start getting treatments for the illness. But, what if you weren't properly diagnosed? There is a chance that you could be missing out on treatments that could save or improve your life. That isn't...
You can fight for compensation after a misdiagnosis
When a misdiagnosis is at play, patients have to be more vigilant than ever. It's easy to want to take the advice of a doctor and to assume what he or she says is the actual diagnosis, but if you see that symptoms aren't resolving or that you're getting worse, asking...