While medical science has made a lot of advancements in the detection and treatment of various forms of cancer, there’s unfortunately still room in the process for mistakes by individual doctors. Delaying treatment of cancer by even a few weeks can make the condition significantly worse and potentially even deadly. Any doctor whose negligence leads directly to this happening may be legally responsible for every form of harm their actions cause to a patient.
As our experienced medical malpractice attorneys can tell you, proving a doctor failed to diagnose cancer specifically because of legal negligence can be deceptively hard, especially by yourself. When you want a fair shot at getting a positive result from this sort of civil claim, you should make speaking with an Allentown cancer misdiagnosis lawyer from our team one of your top priorities.
How Doctor Negligence Can Lead to Cancer Misdiagnosis
One important thing to understand about cancer misdiagnosis as grounds to file a civil lawsuit is that it’s possible to sue over more than a doctor getting your condition wrong. For example, the first step toward diagnosing any medical condition is noting specific symptoms reported by the patient and deciding they are serious enough to justify further action. When a doctor doesn’t take your symptoms seriously and ends up failing to diagnose cancer as early as they reasonably should have, they may have been negligent to a degree that could allow you to sue them.
Different types of cancer require different types of treatment. Diagnosing someone with the wrong type of cancer can result in them not getting the correct treatment or even worse, suffering serious harm from the treatment they do end up getting. Even a small mistake like failing to order the correct test or incorrectly interpreting test results might serve as valid grounds for a cancer misdiagnosis lawsuit in Allentown, as your attorney can further explain during a private initial meeting.
Holding the Right People Liable for Damages
Many different people are involved in the diagnosis process who might hold civil liability for a cancer misdiagnosis. Beyond just your primary care physician, fault may lie with individual technicians who didn’t perform tests properly, nurses and specialists who didn’t communicate clearly with other staff members, and even hospital management and ownership under certain circumstances.
All of these people may be liable to pay for both economic and non-economic harm you have suffered because of your late diagnosis, including:
- Physical pain and suffering
- Bills for additional medical treatment
- Lost work wages or working ability
- Loss of life’s pleasures
- Emotional and psychological distress
Help from one of our cancer misdiagnosis lawyers in Allentown will almost always be crucial to getting the most money possible out of your claim.
Get in Touch With an Allentown Cancer Misdiagnosis Attorney Today
There’s no easy way forward after learning you’ve been diagnosed with cancer. That’s especially true after learning that you should’ve been diagnosed and gotten treatment sooner were it not for the misconduct of the doctors you trusted to treat you.
In a situation like this, you deserve to be paid fairly for the damages you should never have sustained, and an Allentown cancer misdiagnosis lawyer can provide the assistance you need to make sure that happens. Call Ostroff Godshall Injury and Accident Lawyers today to discuss your options.