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Florida parents may be interested to learn about the relationship between the current rise in measles cases and young pediatricians who may have inadvertently contributed by failing to recognize the symptoms of the illness in their patients. Most people have heard the...
If a Florida woman is suffering from pelvic or abdominal pain, bloating or is experiencing urinary symptoms, she could potentially have ovarian cancer. There are several tests that a doctor or specialist may utilize to diagnose their patient. The first step doctors...
Florida residents may not be aware of the recent statistics concerning misdiagnosis occurring in the health care industry. Missing a diagnosis or diagnosing the wrong medical issue continues to be a major problem. An analysis of malpractice cases that have been filed...
Florida residents may benefit from learning more about the risks associated with being misdiagnosed in the emergency room. A report published by the American Heart Association during 2009 cited several accounts in which adult stroke patients were misdiagnosed at the...
People living in Florida may benefit from learning more about some statistics published about medical malpractice incidents. According to an article published by the New England Journal of Medicine over two decades ago, only 2 percent of the patients who suffered a...
One of the most common forms of diagnostic failure in Florida, and the United States in general, is the failure to diagnose a condition. The most common types of lawsuits for failing to diagnose or for a delayed diagnosis are for breast cancer, lung cancer, heart...
As some Florida residents already know, doctors may, despite their education and training, fail to properly diagnose a patient's illness or injury. In some cases, a doctor may not only miss the correct condition but also provide the ailing patient with a diagnosis for...
A woman has sued a Florida hospital after they allegedly misdiagnosed her with rectal cancer, leading them to perform unnecessary surgery. According to the news release, the woman claimed that the surgery was performed after the hospital mixed up her lab results and...
The family of an 81-year-old Florida woman who died at Mercy Hospital in 2010 from pancreatic cancer believes that her doctor of 11 years knew about the cancer two years prior to telling her about it. According to the family, the doctor noticed a tumor during an image...
Most people know that failing to diagnosis a medical condition can be problematic because it can delay treatment, causing a person's condition to deteriorate faster than if they were receiving proper medical care. But few realize that contradicting diagnoses can be...
