It is not easy news to digest, hearing that you have cancer. Your whole world changes as you begin to imagine what treatment will look like and feel like. As you embark on an aggressive, lengthy and serious treatment plan, your mind is on your family, job and the medical bills that keep piling up.
After feeling the effect of your aggressive treatment plan, it comes to light that your medical team was wrong. You do not have cancer; however, your body is now weakened and impacted by this unnecessary treatment due to a misdiagnosis. Now, your mind is focused on improving your health and undoing the harm caused by this medical error.
Diagnostic errors
The magnitude of a diagnostic error can be severe, as it could cost a patient their health and even their life. The attorneys at Navitsky, Olson & Wisneski, LLP, understand how grave of a situation this is. Our law firm strives to fight for clients’ rights while also ensuring no other patients suffer the same fate.
A misdiagnosis does not always look like a patient being told they have a condition or illness that they do not have. It could encompass situations where medical professionals fail to detect a medical condition, administer the wrong treatment for a condition, false positives, false negatives, executing the wrong tests, delaying a diagnosis of cancer and causing an infection, heart attack or other medical condition due to a misdiagnosis.
Medical malpractice
When a misdiagnosis is discovered, the cause is often linked to a medical professional. Our law firm will consider all the individuals and medical facilities you interacted with, uncovering when and why the misdiagnosis occurred. Furthermore, our firm looks at our patients as a whole and what will make them whole. This helps us better calculate the damages suffered now and in the future.
Filing a medical malpractice action is not a simple or easy task to take on. You are likely still suffering from the effects of a misdiagnosis while trying to understand how and why it happened. Thus, it is imperative that you take the time to absorb all of your options as well as your rights when pursuing a civil action.